40th Anniversary Celebration

Annual Lecture

Wednesday 21st May 2025

Professor Brett Kahr

Advancing British Psychotherapy:
How to Enrich our Careers and Transform our Profession

As time has progressed, the psychotherapy profession has flourished hugely, and although the field has grown in size, our profession remains splintered, competitive and, at times, anti-collaborative.
 
The growth of numerous training institutions, professional bodies, membership organisations and multiple approaches to psychotherapy, ranging from intense psychoanalysis to mindfulness-based short-term interventions, indicates that most practitioners of a particular style regard colleagues from other sectors as poorly-trained or as clinically insufficient.
 
Professor Kahr will share his experience of how we can not only enhance our own personal skills and careers more efficaciously, helping us to flourish more fully as practitioners with more exciting careers but, also, he will consider how by developing our own verbal potency and our own skills as experts, we will have the capacity to collaborate more fully with other institutions and thus work towards developing greater integration within the profession. He will also explore how we can take fuller ownership of our clinical and psychological wisdom and thus help to expand the respectability and the impact of the British psychotherapy field.
 
Professor Brett Kahr is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London. He serves as Honorary Director of Research and as an Honorary Fellow of the Freud Museum London. He is Chair of the Scholars Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Council and Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. He is the author of twenty-two books and series editor of more than eighty-five additional volumes. He works with individuals, couples and families at his consulting room in Central London.

Reception: 7pm
Lecture: 8-10pm

Cost: £50