Roger Kennedy

Biography

Roger Kennedy is a consultant psychotherapist at Cassel Hospital, honorary senior lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College, training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the author of several books and many papers on psychoanalysis.

Books

Libido (EBOOK:PDF)

How relevant is the Freudian concept of libido in contemporary psychoanalytic thought? Though libido as an active concept has gone out of favour, Roger Kennedy argues for its reinstatement at the heart of Freud's legacy - with a number of crucial modifications. In particular, libido as a tool for understanding the role of drives needs to be placed into the context of both object relations and the …