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 Francesca Joseph as she talks to him about his work on Friday 23 February 2024. Book on Eventbrite.
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...
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 Praise for the film 'Genre-defying Freudian docudrama ... I couldn't take my eyes off it' - Josh...
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...
Join us for a free flowing and wide ranging conversation about psychoanalysis between Adam Philips and Josh Cohen at 6pm on 25 February in central London. Tickets on Eventbrite.
Critical psychologist and author Dr Robert K Beshara discusses the psychologisation of Islamophobia through the lens of Jacques Lacan's university discourse Abstract In this talk, Dr Beshara will unravel the psychologization of Islamophobia drawing on Jacques Lacan's...
Of the five constitutive components of human sexuality, gender is by far the most complex and intractable. My principal aim in this lecture is to question the epistemological status of gender as a source of knowledge about oneself and as a site where language and embodiment seem to be forever embroiled in a Hegelian struggle for recognition and sovereignty.
Join us for a round table discussion on Dr Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel’s book Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis (De Gruyter 2022) We will start with a conversation between Dr Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa; Rabbi Dr Tali Artman...
A rare opportunity to engage directly with leading contemporary psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips. The Q&A will be hosted by Chris Oakley
Psychoanalytic thinking teaches us that trauma leaves the subject fractured, less agentic, more subject to iterative, stalled revisitations of the traumatic event. In this presentation, Avgi Saketopoulou argues that significant possibilities for psychic transformation and for contact with experience are courted when we make ourselves passible to returning to the site of the traumati
‘When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe’ Franz Fanon
What can we dare to imagine of a psychoanalysis yet to come? More of the same or the courage to open our minds, hearts and practice? This conference will explore the complex ways in which race percolates through the psychoanalytic project – even if it is often denied.
Speakers include Achille Mbembe, Claudia Bernard, Adam Phillips, Christina Moutsou, Peter Nevins…
In Greek mythology, the seer Tiresias was allegedly transformed into a woman for seven years for disturbing two copulating snakes on Mount Cyllene. Niya B re-reads this myth from an eco-transfeminist lens through ritual performances, workshops and sonic explorations....