Click Here to Read: David James Fisher’s Blog post about this meeting.
Adam Phillips, British psychoanalyst and author, was Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He is now a psychoanalyst in private practice and a writer. He is considered one of the foremost writers on psychoanalysis today, having authored over twenty books including Unforbidden Pleasures, Becoming Freud, Winnicott, On Balance, and Going Sane. He is the General Editor of Penguin Modern Classics Freud Translations (17 volumes) and writes regularly for The New York Times, The Observer and the London Review of Books.
We invite you to join us for two special events featuring Adam Phillips, our Master Clinician in Residence:
Winnicott and the British Independent Group, an all-day conference at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica on Saturday, October 28, 2017
The Independent Group in British Psychoanalysis—most notably Winnicott, Khan, Milner, Rycroft, and Laing—pioneered a unique and unprecedented approach to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Adam Phillips, identifying himself as a member and heir to the Independent Group, explores the various dimensions of the Independent Group’s approaches, while engaging with the controversies generated by them in the development of psychoanalysis. This conference concentrates on how the extraordinary range of Independent Group writing might be applicable to today’s clinical practice. There will be close attention to Winnicott’s seminal book, Playing and Reality.
The afternoon program, A Discussion on Winnicott, features great panelists including Lynda Chassler, PhD, Van DeGolia, MD, Jeffrey Prager, PhD, and Leigh Tobias, PhD as they and Adam Phillips focus on Winnicott’s Playing and Reality, Phillips’ Winnicott, and Phillips’ paper, “Winnicott’s Magic: ‘Playing and Reality’ and Reality.”
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
Identify an historical and critical account of the leading figures in the British Independent Group, most importantly Winnicott
Explain the ways in which the Independent School differentiates itself from other psychoanalytic paradigms
Describe some seminal insights of Winnicott with regard to trauma, development, dyadic relationships, culture, playing, and symbolic forms of thinking
Delineate Winnicott’s clinical relevance today
Saturday, October 28, 2017, 9 AM-4 PM 6 CE credits
Location: Shutters on the Beach
One Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, 90405
Valet Parking and Lunch are included
Pre-registration by Oct. 1, 2017: $165
Registration Oct. 2- 24, 2017: $185
Students, interns & candidates: $ 90
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Conversion Hysteria, this year’s Robert J. Stoller Memorial Lecture, is held on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 8- 10 PM at NCP.
This talk examines the uses and significance of “conversion”—a controversial term fraught with religious, scientific, and economic connotations—in psychoanalytic theory and practice. In elaborating historical and critical perspectives on “conversion,” the lecture explores diverse ways of thinking about how we evaluate the nature of psychoanalytic treatment.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
Summarize the historical overview of the concept of “conversion” from Freud to Stoller to the present
Explain the controversies around the term “conversion,” from the origins of psychoanalysis to the present
Identify the clinical relevance of “conversion” in today’s practice of psychoanalysis
Thursday, October 26, 2017,
8 PM-10 PM 2 CE/CME credits
$40 with CE Credit, $20 without CE credit
Free for Clinical Associates, interns, residents and students
Want to know more about Adam Phillips? Watch this!