As part of our live chats at lunch series, Daniel Calvert speaks to Roger Kennedy about his new book, The Power of Music, Psychoanalytic Explorations. Dr Roger Kennedy is an adult psychoanalyst as well as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and is well-known as an expert witness in the family courts.
- Read: Review of The Power of Music | a book exploring the links between music, emotion and psychoanalysis
Dr Roger Kennedy worked as a Consultant Family Psychiatrist in the NHS at the Cassel Hospital Richmond, for 29 years and was an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College, London. He is trained as a Child Psychiatrist and a Medical Psychotherapist.
He sees adolescents, couples and families for therapeutic work, and offers assessments for children and parents, for emotional and behavioural problems, and does screening assessments for autism spectrum disorder and ADHD.
Dr Kennedy is also a Training Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and was their President from 2004-2006. He also has experience of providing courts and social services with expert opinion on multi-problem families as well as in private law cases, though he no longer appears in court.
His books include:
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis, Consciousness and the Human Soul;
The Evil Imagination: Understanding and Resisting Destructive Forces;
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity: Now of the Past;
Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times: Psychoanalytic Political and Philosophical Perspectives
Child Abuse, Psychotherapy and Law: Bearing the Unbearable;
Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses: Families at Breaking Point
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis;
Couch Tales: Short Stories
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy After Child Abuse: The Treatment of Adults and Children Who have Experienced Sexual Abuse, Violence and Neglect in Childhood
Read our review of The Power of Music.
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