Kannan Navaratnem

Kannan Navaratnem is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London and a member of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is a training analyst for child and adult psychotherapy training at the Tavistock Clinic and the British Psychotherapy Foundation.

He is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and teaches at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis, British Psychoanalytic Association, British Psychotherapy Foundation, and the Tavistock Clinic (where he has been the inter-cultural psychotherapy clinical seminar leader for the last sixteen years) as well as in China. He is also psychotherapy supervisor to psychiatrists in training at the Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust.

Previously he was a consultant adult psychotherapist at the Forest House psychotherapy clinic in the NHS, and editor of News & Events and Beyond the Couch publications of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and the Bulletin of the British Psychoanalytical Society. For fifteen years, he was a member of the organising committee of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival.

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the current Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis in the Praxis and Research Center for Clinical Psychology and Education at Kyoto University. His research areas are 'Self and Identity', 'Psychoanalysis and Cinema', 'Applied Psychoanalytic Education', 'Psychoanalytic History' and 'Culture, Race and Diversity'.

Email: k.navaratnem@ucl.ac.uk