Castration Anxiety: A Neglected Aetiological Factor in the Male Murderer*

Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent's University London, as well as Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London. Kahr has maintained a long-standing interest in psychoanalytical criminology, having held posts in several forensic National Health Service settings. In particular, he worked for many years as Staff Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic Young Abusers Project, under the sponsorship of the Department of Health, the National Children's Home, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, assessing and treating juvenile paedophiles. He serves as series editor of the “Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series” for the publishers Routledge, part of the Taylor and Francis Group, and as consulting editor to The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy, published by Karnac Books. Author of nineteen books and series editor of over eighty-five additional titles, his latest solo-authored books include Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel, as well as Dangerous Lunatics: Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy, and, most recently, Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud's Death Bed to Laing's Missing Tooth. His next book, Forensic Psychoanalysis: From Sub-Clinical Psychopaths to Serial Killers will be published shortly. He works in full-time private practice in Holborn, in Central London