Professor Brett Kahr is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, Visiting Professor in the School of Arts at Roehampton University and the Winnicott Clinic Senior Research Fellow in Psychotherapy at the Winnicott Clinic of Psychotherapy, in London.

He is a Visiting Clinician and Visiting Lecturer at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London, specialising in work with marital couples. His books include the award-winning study on the life of the leading British psychoanalyst and paediatrician, Dr Donald Winnicott, which received the Gradiva Award for Biography.

A frequent broadcaster, he has been the Resident Psychotherapist for BBC Radio 2, and the Spokesperson for the BBC initiative Life2Live, designed to bring solid mental health advice and information to the general public.