The case to be presented is from a 15 year mostly three times a week analysis of a substantially traumatized patient beginning at age 4 and including both parents. The focus of the presentation following some background will be on the degree and kind of change and the possible basis for the patient’s marked improvement. Factors associated with the progress in comparison with other mostly less improved patients will be considered. Continue reading Prognostic Reflections from A 15 Year Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Patient with Substantial Chronic Psychic Trauma with Marvin Hurvich at AIP

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.” Continue reading Winnicott and the British Independent Group, an all-day conference at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica on Saturday, October 28, 2017