On the 50th anniversary of Dr Ernest Jones' completion of the definitive biography of Freud, Brenda Maddox will discuss her latest book, Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones with psychoanalyst Ken Robinson. Through his work on the Ernest Jones archive, Robinson ideally placed to discuss her understanding of the biographerâs art and the life of this fascinating and enigmatic character. 

Brenda Maddox is an author, biographer and journalist. Her most recent book, Freudâs Wizard, is a biography of Dr Ernest Jones, Freud's rescuer and biographer.  Her previous biographies include Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, the life story of DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin, which won the English-Speaking Union's Marsh Biography Prize for 2002-3. George's Ghosts: The Secret Life of WB Yeats, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Non-Fiction Prize. Earlier, DH Lawrence: The Married Man won the 1994 Whitbread Biography Prize. In 1988, Nora, the life of Nora Barnacle, wife of James Joyce, won the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize, the British Silver PEN Award for non-fiction and, later, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. It was also made into a film. 

Ken Robinson is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a psychoanalyst in full-time practice in Newcastle. As the Society's Archivist he is overseeing a major project funded by the Wellcome Trust to catalogue the Society's thousands of documents relating to the history of psychoanalysis in the UK. He also chairs the Freudian Study Group. 

Novelist Barry Unsworth, who won the Booker Prize in 1992 for Sacred Hunger, a powerful account of the slave trade, will join eminent psychoanalyst and historian Ken Robinson for a fascinating exploration of literature and history. The event is held during Black History Month. 
Barry Unsworth's first novel was published in 1966. He has since written 14 novels including Pascali's Island (1980), about the last years of the Ottoman empire (shortlisted for the Booker prize and later adapted as a film); The Rage of the Vulture (1982), the story of a British spy in Constantinople; Stone Virgin (1985), the story of a restorer working on a Venetian Madonna interpolated with earlier episodes set in the 14th and 18th centuries. Sugar and Rum (1988) was inspired by Unsworth's study of Liverpool's contemporary problems with its prosperous heritage. Research for the book led him to write Sacred Hunger (1992), a powerful account of the Atlantic slave trade that moves from Liverpool to West Africa, Florida and the West Indies. It was joint winner of the Booker in 1992. His most recent novel, set in the 12th century, is The Ruby in her Navel (2006). 
Ken Robinson will talk to Barry Unsworth about the lessons of the slave trade and discuss how his genius for the recreation of distant times can resonate so forcefully with the present day. 

Presented by: The Rowan Arts Project with The Freud Museum, The Institute of Psychoanalysis and London Metropolitan University