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Some Favorite Writers: Adam Phillips

When: Thursday, February 27, 2025 7:30 pm
Where: Hammer Museum

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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Thursday, February 27, 2025 7:30 pm America/Los_Angeles Some Favorite Writers: Adam Phillips Hammer Museum UCLA English graduate@english.ucla.edu