Dany Nobus

Summary

Clinical and Developmental Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Head of the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University London (2006-2011). Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (2006). Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy, Staff Development, and External Relations at Brunel University London (2012-2017). Executive developer and manager of the University's Strategic Plan (2012). University Public Orator (2012-2017). Principal Strategic Coordinator of the University's 50-anniversary programme (2016). Member ex-officio of the University Senate (2006-2017). Member ex-officio of the University Council (2012-2017). Member ex-officio of the University's Senior Management Group and the Academic Management Group (2006-2017). Chair of the University's Information and Data Protection Committee (2012-2017). Chair of the University's Business and Enterprise Committee (2014-2017). Former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts--Boston (2002-2003). Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Creighton University, Omaha NE (2004-2006). Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Instituto Internacional de Psicanálise (Rio de Janeiro) (2022-). Associate Editor of the journal 'Psychoanalysis and History' (Edinburgh University Press). Psychologist-in-Residence at the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival (October 2013). Dany Nobus's PhD, which he completed in 1996, was one of the first in which the notions of 'human sexual diversity' and 'inclusivity' were advanced as essential conditions for the democratisation of the human sexual experience. Since then, he has published numerous articles and book chapters developing these ideas, most recently in the context of trans* studies. His main current research interests include the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry, the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and the arts, and the history of ideas, especially with reference to the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. Dany Nobus has published 9 books and over 350 academic papers and book chapters in 12 different languages. He is a regular contributor to public broadcasting, such as the 2016 episode of the acclaimed television series 'Genius of the Modern World' and the 2020 tv series 'Royal Histories'. Through 'Education in Action', Dany Nobus also offers regular educational live events on various Psychology-related subjects at A/AS, IB, BTEC, GCSE and KS3 level. In addition, he is the resident expert for the New Scientist tour on 'The Science, History and Culture of Vienna'. Before joining Brunel University of London, Dany Nobus worked for 7 years as a Human Resources Manager in the corporate sector and still has an active interest in business and organisational psychology, which he has taught at undergraduate level for the psychology department at Brunel and at postgraduate level in the Brunel Business School. As a result of his expertise and experience in this area, he has contributed to the validation of Masters' degrees in the Brunel Business School, was appointed by the Irish Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) as External Assessor for the Dublin Business School (2003-2007), and has acted as External Examiner for PhD Dissertations in various Business Schools in the UK, most recently at Birkbeck, University of London (2023). Overseas, he has worked for the Education Department of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of New York as a Leading International Expert for the validation and assessment of Masters' and Higher Research Degrees at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP) in Boston MA and the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) in New York City. Dany Nobus is widely considered to be one of the world's principal experts on the life and works of the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and he is currently completing a new, in-depth biography of Lacan--the first ever to be written originally in English--for Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding research contributions to psychoanalytic historiography.

Qualifications

• PhD Psychology (Ghent)
• MA Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Ghent)
• MSc Clinical and Developmental Psychology (Ghent)
• BSc Psychology (Ghent) 

Responsibility

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