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Sex and the Psyche
The Secret World of Sexual Fantasy
- Author: Brett Kahr
- Category: Non-fiction
- Publisher: Penguin (UK)/ Perseus (US)
- Pub date: February 2007
- Length: 496 pages
About Sex and the Psyche
This is a corker, a book people pick up and don’t want to give back. For it is, as Kahr boasts, ‘a Noah’s Ark of sexual fantasies’.
— EVENING STANDARD
Although Europeans appear to be sexually liberal, we still possess enormous anxieties, fears, inhibitions and shame in relation to our sexual lives. We may purport to be sexually free and confident whilst at the pub, but in private many individuals experience ongoing, internal misery about their sexual lives.
This amazing book emerges from the world’s largest-ever survey of sexual fantasies: a sample of over 15,000 people who had each to complete a 32-page questionnaire before Brett Kahr then chose a core group to be interviewed at great length at his London practice. But the survey results are just part of SEX AND THE PSYCHE. Kahe draws also on his 25 years of running a psychiatric practice which specializes in relationship and sexuality issues.
Doing for the mind what Kinsey did for the body, SEX AND THE PSYCHE, not surprisingly, is packed with revelations and research – about, for example, the plasticity of fantasies, and the difference between publicly admitted and private fantasies.
About the Author
Professor Brett Kahr is one Great Britain’s most distinguished mental health professionals, having worked in the field for thirty years. He is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health, and holds an Honorary Visiting Professorship in the School of Arts at Roehampton University, attached to the “Media and the Inner World” network.
A media psychotherapist of longstanding, he has presented several television documentaries, and served as Resident Psychotherapist on B.B.C. Radio 2, and Spokesperson for the B.B.C. mental health campaign “Life 2 Live”. He is delegate to the councils of both the British Psychoanalytic Council and to the Council for Psychoanalysis for Jungian Analysis, and teaches at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology.