Professor Dany Nobus
Professor - Psychology
Quad North 105
- Email: dany.nobus@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265944
- Psychology
Summary
Clinical and Developmental Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Head of the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University (2006-2011). Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (2006). Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy, Staff Development, and External Relations at Brunel University (2012-2017). Executive developer and manager of the University's Strategic Plan (2012). University Public Orator (2012-2017). Principal Strategic Coordinator of the University's 50-anniversary programme (2016). Member ex-officio of the University Senate (2006-2017). Member ex-officio of the University Council (2012-2017). 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. Associate Editor of the journal 'Psychoanalysis and History' (Edinburgh University Press). Psychologist in Residence at the Cheltenham Science Festival (2014). 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. Dany Nobus is a regular contributor to public broadcasting, such as the 2016 episode of the acclaimed series 'Genius of the Modern World' and the 2020 series 'Royal Histories'. Dany Nobus is also the resident expert for the New Scientist tour on 'The Science, History and Culture of Vienna'. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Sarton medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic historiography.
Qualifications:
- PhD Psychology (Ghent)
- MA Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Ghent)
- MSc Clinical and Developmental Psychology (Ghent)
- BSc Psychology (Ghent)
Newest selected publications
Beira, M. and Nobus, DM. (2025) 'Psychoanalysis In Search of Itself: Jacques Lacan, T. S. Eliot, and the Seductions of Modernism', in Waller, T. and Richards, S. (eds.) Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism. London : Bloomsbury. ISBN 13: 9798765114902.
Nobus, DM. (2025) 'Nature', in Martell, J. (ed.) Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism. London; New York NY : Bloomsbury. pp. 245 - 246. ISBN 13: 9798765109151.
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. pp. 129 - 141. ISBN 13: 9798765109151.
Nobus, DM. (2024) 'Errare Humanum Est: On Psychoanalysis as Morosophy', in Zeiher, C. (ed.) Stupidity and Psychoanalysis: Lacanian Perspectives on New Subjectivities and Social Forms. New York NY; London : Rowman and Littlefield. pp. 121 - 150. ISBN 13: 9781786616203.
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. ISBN 10: 3-662-69607-X. ISBN 13: 978-3-662-69607-1.