Professor Dany Nobus
Professor - Psychology
Quad North 105
- Email: dany.nobus@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265944
- Psychology
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. (2025) '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. ISBN 13: 9798765109151.
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Must We Burn Masud Khan?'. Psychoanalysis and History, 26 (2). pp. 125 - 137. ISSN: 1460-8235
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Psychoanalytic Currency: 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. 577 - 596. ISBN 13: 9783031541391.
Nobus, DM. and Gilhooly, K. (2024) 'Theodor Reik on Creativity as a Conscious and Unconscious Activity', in Gl膩veanu, V., Puccio, G. and Schwartz, M. (eds.) The Mid-Century Creativity Reader. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Die Furcht vor echten Tr盲nen: Krzysztof Kieslowski und die 'Nachtstelle'', in Finkelde, D. (ed.) 沤i啪ek Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung. Stuttgart : J. B. Metzler Verlag.