In Conversation with Adam Phillips

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15:00 Start Time – 17:00 End

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Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and visiting professor in the English Department at the University of York. He is the author of several well-known titles including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects, On Kindness, On Balance, Missing Out and One Way and Another. With Confer Books he recently published The Cure for Psychoanalysis.
Josh Cohen is a professor of modern literary theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of many books, including The Private Life, Not Working, How to Live. What to Do and, most recently, Losers.

‘The Cure for Psychoanalysis’ presents two brilliant essays by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis.

In the first essay, ‘The Magic of Winnicott,’ Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and wisdom of Winnicott’s concept of play. In ‘The Cure for Psychoanalysis’ he works through psychoanalytic theories about cure and instructs us to take most seriously those that free the analyst and patient to wonder and to take pleasure in the unknowable adventure ahead of them.

These two thought-provoking writings frame a discussion between the author and Edward Corrigan, analyst and friend, which offers an intimate portrait of two analysts in conversation, thoughtfully reflecting on traditions that inform Phillips’ practice and prolific works. This record of ‘A Day with Adam Phillips’ at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York includes questions and commentaries which demonstrate the creative and open expression encouraged by and reflected in the practice of psychoanalysis itself.