Events
‘On Giving Up’ – Adam Phillips in conversation with Francesca Joseph
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...
Anniversary: The Site 25 Years IN Contemporary Psychoanalysis
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...
Film screening: Husband, for better or for worse
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...
An introduction to Traumatophilia: Race, Trauma, Transformation
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...
On Psychoanalysis: Adam Phillips and Josh Cohen in conversation
A free flowing and wide ranging conversation between two psychoanalysts and writers. Adam Philips and Josh Cohen will discuss psychoanalysis with each other and the audience. Bio: Josh Cohen Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst and Professor of English at Goldsmiths...
The Psychologization of Islamophobia
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...
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