Lionel Monteith Public Lecture

The Lionel Monteith annual lecture is open to the public and focuses on a theme of current concern which is examined from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Professor Brett Kahr

Fame and the unconscious – Creative and malignant components of celebrity culture

Chair: Prophecy Coles

In his talk, Professor Kahr will examine the meaning of the current obsession with fame and celebrity and draw upon his experiences as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and as a broadcaster to examine what role the "celebrity" might fulfil in the unconscious life and group function of the culture. What might we learn from the preoccupation with celebrities about our destructiveness and the need to be seen and mirrored, and can celebrity be aspirational or inspirational?

Professor Brett Kahr is a BPC psychoanalytic psychotherapist for individuals and couples, a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, and Honorary Visiting Professor at Roehampton University. He is author or editor of six books, including the first biography of Donald Winnicott, and recently, Sex and the Psyche. He has worked in mental health broadcasting recently as Resident Psychotherapist on BBC Radio 2, and as Spokesperson for the BBC mental health campaign "Life 2 Live".

Saturday 24 April 2010

St Thomas' Hospital

The Governors Hall, St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1

Tickets

£20 in advance or £22 on the door
(student/trainee rate: £14 in advance, £16 on the door)
from Aishleen Lester at the Lincoln Centre

Make cheques payable to 'The Lincoln Centre'

British Sign Language interpreter