On The Couch: Adam Phillips with Daphne Merkin
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Adam Phillips, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Freud, is joined by novelist and critic Daphne Merkin for a discussion of Phillips’ strikingly original new biography of the father of psychoanalysis, Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst.
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Brief Bios
Adam Phillips is former Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, and is now a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York.
Daphne Merkin is a novelist and critic who has written frequently about psychoanalysis and her own struggle with depression. Her collection of essays, The Fame Lunches, will be published in September.
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