Christopher (Kit) Fortune
Areas of interest
Sandor Ferenczi and psychoanalysis.
Education
- PhD, Psychoanalytic History, University of Toronto (OISE)
- PD, Education, Simon Fraser University
- 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: 1921–1933" (Open Gate Press). He has also published ground-breaking chapters on Ferenczi’s radical case of “RN” (Elizabeth Severn) in "The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi (Vol 1&2)," "Ferenczi’s 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 SFU's Philosophers’ 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).