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.
Closing the Circle from Theory to Therapy
The underlying theme of the talk will be about John Bowlby’s initial dream of putting his therapist-role on hold, developing a usable theory, and then returning to doing therapy with that theory. His dream was not realized during his lifetime, but that has changed in the past 25 years. The Circle of Security Intervention is part of that change.
Conjuring and our Conscious Experience: Why Magic Works
Magic is one of the oldest art forms, and for centuries conjurers have created illusions of the impossible by distorting your perception and thoughts. Advances in Psychology and Neuroscience offer new insights into why our minds are so easily deceived and I will explore some to the mechanisms that are involved in magic
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia & the Revolution in Mental Health Care
Writer and Professor of Modern Italian History, John Foot discusses his latest publication, The Man Who Closed the Asylums (Verso August 2015) - The fascinating story of Franco Basaglia, one of the key intellectual and cultural figures of 1960s counterculture—a contemporary of R.D. Laing who worked to overturn institutions from within and ended up transforming mental health care in Italy.
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