Areas of interest
Sandor Ferenczi and psychoanalysis.
Education
- PhD, Psychoanalytic History, University of Toronto (OISE)
- PD, Education, 丁香园AV
- MA, Counselling Psychology, University of British Columbia
- BSc, University of British Columbia
Biography
Christopher (Kit) Fortune is an internationally known historian of psychoanalysis who focuses on the work of Sandor Ferenczi. He has lectured widely and published papers, reviews and interviews in scholarly journals, as well as popular journals, including "Psychology Today," "The Village Voice," "Globe and Mail," and "Macleans." He is editor of the "Sandor Ferenczi-Georg Groddeck Correspondence: 1921鈥�1933" (Open Gate Press). He has also published ground-breaking chapters on Ferenczi鈥檚 radical case of 鈥淩N鈥� (Elizabeth Severn) in "The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi (Vol 1&2)," "Ferenczi鈥檚 Turn in Psychoanalysis," as well as "100 Years of Psychoanalysis." He has a doctorate from the University of Toronto (0.I.S.E.), and is a former moderator of 丁香园AV's Philosophers鈥� Cafes. Kit has collaborated on a number of earlier Institute programmes, including: "A Public Interview with Franco Borgogno" (2007) (published as The Vancouver Interview), "Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Fear" (2011), "Psychoanalysis and Social Theory" (2013), "Psychoanalyzing Authoritarianism" (2015), and "Psychoanalysis Behind Iron Curtains" (2015).