by Admin General | Jun 8, 2024
When: Saturday 8th June 2024 Time: 19:30 – 21:00 BST Where: Westminster Quakers 52 Saint Martin’s Lane London WC2N 4EA Abstract: While Freud once thought of humour as suffused with jouissance – with sexual and aggressive tension – he later felt that humour was...
by Admin General | Feb 23, 2024
In his new book On Giving Up, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips considers both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up, and helps us to address the central question: what must we give up in order to feel more alive? Join psychoanalyst...
by Nick Blackburn | Sep 30, 2023
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis was established in October 1997 by psychotherapists who wished to create a training programme and an association that would foster critical, reflective, and imaginative thinking about psychoanalysis and its contemporary...
by Admin General | Sep 23, 2023
The screening will be followed by a Q&A and panel discussion with filmmakers Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi and psychoanalysts Francesca Joseph and Douglas Gill Saturday, 23 September 2023 19:00 – 21:00 BST Westminster Quakers, 52 St Martin’s Lane...
by Admin General | Mar 31, 2023
A particular epistemology of trauma has come to dominate psychoanalysis: trauma, we uncritically accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic effects. So mesmerised are we by this epistemology that suggesting it is not a factual accounting of how trauma works but...
