Is Psychoanalysis a Jewish Science?
Panel discussion: Joseph Berke, Stephen Frosh, Tali Loewenthal and Anthony Stadlen
Podcast: Wittgenstein’s Dream
'‘We are asleep. Our life is like a dream. But in our better hours we wake up just enough to realise that we are dreaming.’ - Ludwig Wittgenstein
From the ‘Authoritarian’ to the ‘Neo-Liberal’ Personality
Understanding the Socio-psychological Roots of Contemporary Right-wing Populism
Psychotherapy and Biography: Unnatural Bedfellows?
What is a successful biography? How can inner lives of others be satisfactorily explored and explained? Join a panel of writers looking at the fascinating process of writing biography using psychoanalytic thinking to understand psychoanalysts
Unforbidden Pleasures
Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out and Going Sane
On Not Being Terrified of What you Hear
Hearing voices has been described as everything from schizophrenic to godlike. Radical psychiatry in the 1960s contested what today are termed 'auditory hallucinations' seeing them as containing what couldn't be said
Conference- The Effectiveness of Symbols
This conference brings together eminent speakers from the fields of psychoanalysis and anthropology to reflect on Lévi-Strauss’ paper and its influence, and to discuss symbolic effectiveness in their own research and practice.
Conference: Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis
A major international conference on the Clinical Diary and other work of Sándor Ferenczi, addressing themes of ‘freedom’ and ‘sincerity’, ‘trauma’, ‘borderline states’, ‘mutuality’, ‘self-analysis’ and the ethics of psychoanalysis.
Conference: The Unconscious Today
Freud’s insistence that ‘the mind’ is not synonymous with ‘consciousness’ was still considered radical in his day. However, decades of research conducted beyond the couch have lent overwhelming support to the notion that most of our mental activity is of a non-conscious type, making it one of the most fundamental assumptions in contemporary psychology and neuroscience.
This conference brings together various ways of thinking about the unconscious, to revisit some of Freud’s original proposals and examine their current status.
The Creative Unconscious Psychoanalytic Poetry Festival 2015
The Poetry Society and the Freud Museum present an all-day event examining the creative unconscious, with leading speakers from the worlds of poetry, academia and psychoanalysis.
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