Some Favorite Writers: Adam Phillips
Where: Landmark Theater, Westwood, 1045 Broxton Ave.
This program will take place at the Landmark Westwood Theater, at 1045 Broxton Avenue. View directions
Adam Phillips, “Britain’s foremost contemporary psychoanalytic thinker” (The New Yorker), will be in conversation with UCLA English Professors David Russell and Mona Simpson on Kindness, Missing Out, Wanting to Change, Getting Better and Giving Up.
Adam Phillips, formerly a principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including Missing Out, Unforbidden Pleasures, In Writing, Attention Seeking, On Wanting to Change, and On Getting Better. He is the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Copresented by the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute.
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