The Cure for Psychoanalysis
By (author) Adam Phillips
Paperback (Published)
(June 2021)
ISBN: 9781913494384
5.43 x 8.5 inches
Price: $34.95
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In two brilliant essays, Adam Phillips reveals what is at the heart of psychoanalysis – how it can enable both analyst and patient to live more fully, more creatively. In addition to the essays are creative and openly expressed questions and commentaries, plus an interview, inspired by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psy
In two brilliant essays, Adam Phillips reveals what is at the heart of psychoanalysis – how it can enable both analyst and patient to live more fully, more creatively. In addition to the essays are creative and openly expressed questions and commentaries, plus an interview, inspired by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. The book presents a day-long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes additional contributions from John Bliss, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Edward Corrigan, Holly Levenkron, Kathleen DelMar Miller, Thomas Rini, Ron Taffel, Betty P. Teng, Karen Weiser, and Melissa White Gomez.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Welcome – A day with Adam Phillips at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy by Ron Taffel, Ph.D
2. The magic of Winnicott: Playing and reality, and reality by Adam Phillips
3. Morning Q&A
4. An Interview with Adam Phillips
5. Afternoon Q&A
6. Commentaries by members of the faculty, graduates and candidates
7. The Cure for Psychoanalysis by Adam Phillips
8. Coda – A day with Adam Phillips at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy by Holly Levenkron, Director of Psychoanalytic Training
References
- By (author) Adam Phillips
'The book’s call and response format, the supple back and forth movement between Phillips and his audience … serves as an ideal introduction to a by now forbiddingly expansive and continually expanding body of work … succeeds in reaching into the heart of his thinking to give us its fundamental questions and stakes, especially when it comes to our clinical practice: Why do we bother with psychoanalysis? How does it serve the aim of ensuring life is worth the effort?'
— British Journal of Psychotherapy
'We know Adam Phillips to be a remarkable writer but in this wonderfully spirited book we discover he is also an endlessly interesting conversationalist. With his old friend, Ed Corrigan, as a talk-buddy, we are privy to dialogue as a form of performance art. There is genius here; there is good humor; there is joy. It doesn't get better than this.'
— Christopher Bollas
'As much a philosophy of life as a book about psychoanalysis… the lay person can pick up this book and grasp its content—there’s no banging your head against technical jargon or impenetrable analytic language. It’s a short book, which you can read in an afternoon, and be all the better for it… As you leaf through the pages, you are touched by someone who has been in touch with life in many forms… I could say much more, but I’ll let the magic of the book surprise you too.'
— Stillpoint Magazine
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