Professor Dany Nobus
Professor - Psychology
Quad North 105
- Email: dany.nobus@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265944
Summary
Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Creighton University, Omaha NE. Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts--Boston. Main 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. In 2017, Dany Nobus was awarded the Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic historiography.
Qualifications:
- PhD Psychology (Ghent)
- MA Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Ghent)
- MSc Clinical Psychology (Ghent)
- BSc Psychology (Ghent)
Newest selected publications
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Psychoanalytic Currencies: Money, Commensurability, and Clinical Economies from Freud to Lacan', in Tinguely, JJ. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money. New York NY : Palgrave. , Vol 2: Modern Thought. pp. 645 - 668. ISBN 13: 9783031541391. Open Access Link
Nobus, DM. and Gilhooly, K. (2024) 'Theodor Reik on Creativity as a Conscious and Unconscious Activity', in Glāveanu, V., Puccio, G. and Schwartz, M. (eds.) The Mid-Century Creativity Reader. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Die Furcht vor echten Tränen: Krzysztof Kieslowski und die 'Nachtstelle'', in Finkelde, D. (ed.) Žižek Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung. Stuttgart : J. B. Metzler Verlag.Open Access Link
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Sade Reads d'Holbach: Atheism, Materialism, and Atopy in the Rise of the Avant-Garde', in Martell, J. (ed.) Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism. London-New York NY : Bloomsbury.
Nobus, DM. (2023) 'Revisiting Lacan: Lacan on Depression and Melancholia'. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 71 (5). pp. 1029 - 1033. ISSN: 0003-0651 Open Access Link