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Join us for a series of evening events at the Freud Museum titled Provocations, or Difficult Conversations in the Home of the Talking Cure curated by Rachel Cooke. In-house only.
In tonight’s event Hadley Freeman will be in conversation with Philippa Perry.
“Recounting her years of anorexia with uncommon honesty, Hadley Freeman makes a powerful case for finding the will to live.”
From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Hadley Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia, one of the most widely known but least understood mental illnesses. For the following twenty years, she wrestled various other forms of destructive behaviour as her anorexia mutated. In her book Good Girls, she combines vivid memoir with deep reporting on the issues around anorexia in an effort better to understand both it, and her own recovery.
SPEAKERS
Hadley Freeman is an acclaimed journalist and writer. Having spent two decades at The Guardian, she is now a columnist at the Sunday Times. Her previous book, House of Glass, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Good Girls was named one of the best books of 2023 by the Wall Street Journal.
Philippa Perry is an artist and psychotherapist. The beloved agony aunt of the Observer Magazine, she is the celebrated author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, which has been translated in 40 languages and has so far sold over a million copies; and also of Couch Fiction, How To Stay Sane and, more recently, of The Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read. She has presented many radio and TV documentaries on the subject of mental health both for the BBC and Channel 4.
Buy the Book
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia – Hadley Freeman is available to purchase from the Freud Museum Shop.
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The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t) – Philippa Perry is available to purchase from the Freud Museum Shop.
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TICKETS
Tickets include a welcome drink, book signing, plus special after-hours viewing of the Museum.
Freud Museum Members and Patrons receive 20% off the standard ticket price on all events, courses, conferences and On Demand programming.
Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE.
The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular public income.
Provocations, or Difficult Conversations in the Home of the Talking Cure
A series of evening events at the Freud Museum
Provocations: Good Girls – Hadley Freeman in conversation with Philippa Perry – 14 February
Provocations: Two Sisters – Blake Morrison in conversation with Rachel Cooke – 28 February
Provocations: Mortal Secrets – Frank Tallis in conversation with Samira Ahmed – 6 March
Provocations: A Thread of Violence – Mark O’Connell in conversation with Dr Carine Minne – 14 March
