Adam Phillips - The Cure for Psychoanalysis

John Bliss, LCSW, CASAC is a psychoanalyst and co-founder and co-director of The Second Wind, a drug addiction centre in New York.

Patricia Ticineto Clough, PhD is a professor of sociology and womens studies at the City University of New York and teaches Performance Studies at NYU. She has published widely, most recently The User Unconscious: Affect, Media and Measure. She is a member of the Training Committee of the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP), faculty at ICP and NIP, and a practising psychoanalyst in New York City.

Edward Corrigan, PhD is on the faculty and supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and co-editor with Pearl-Ellen Gordon, PhD of the Mind Object: Precocity and the Pathology of Self Sufficiency.

Holly Levenkron, LCSW-R, LICSW is a Relational/Interpersonal Psychoanalyst and Director of Psychoanalytic Training at ICP (Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City). She has taught and supervised at ICP, PPSC (Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Study Center, NYC), MIP (Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis), the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia (Skype), the Australian IARPP (Zoom). Her interests are contemporary theories of affect, comparative field theory, enactment and viii dissociation. She has published articles on affect honesty and enactment and a comparison of the Boston Change Process Study Group with Relational Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in both NYC and Cambridge, MA.

Kathleen DelMar Miller, MFA, LCSW is a poet and psychoanalyst practising in New York City. She is a member of the Training Committee for the four-year Analytic Training programme at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where she also teaches. Her poetry has been published in various online and in-print journals and anthologies. She writes about Didier Anzieus skin-ego, gendered embodiment and creativity. Her paper, Working Clinically With the Skins Surface: Tattoos, Scars, and Gendered Embodiment, received the Symonds Prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality in 2020. She has another paper, A Radically Open Analysis: Writing as Wrapping, Video as Skin, forthcoming in Psychoanalytic Dialogues.

Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. Adams most recent publications include Unforbidden Pleasure, In Writing, Attention Seeking and On Wanting to Change.

Thomas Rini, MA, LMHC teaches Winnicott at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Object Relations at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center. He is in private practice in New York. ix

Ron Taffel, PhD is Chair, Board of Directors of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. He is the author of 8 books and over 100 professional and popular articles translated into numerous languages. Dr Taffels training in psychoanalysis, family and child therapy led to his focus on the intersectionality of treatment, the socio-political context, human development and the creation of community. Taffels works include The Politics of Mood, In Search of the Unspoken Self, Childhood Unbound, The New Anxiety and The Divided-Self of Adolescents.

Betty P. Teng, LMSW, MFA is a psychoanalyst and a trauma therapist who has worked with survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and childhood molestation at Mount Sinai Beth Israels Victims Services Program in Manhattan. She is one of 27 contributors to the bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Ms Teng sees patients in private practice and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Karen Weiser, PhD is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Or, The Ambiguities (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015) and To Light Out (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Her essay on Herman Melville was published in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies (2016). She has another essay forthcoming on Edgar Allan Poe, gun violence and race in 2019: Readings in Proximity (Milkweed Press, 2019). Her recently completed third book of poetry, New Notes for the End of the World, is about eighteenth-century astronomers William and Caroline x Herschel. Karen is a candidate in psychoanalysis and works as a therapist at ICP in New York City.

Melissa White Gomez is a psychoanalyst practising in New York City. She is a graduate of the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic programmes at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, as well as ICPs Psychotherapy Center for Gender and Sexuality. Melissa has worked in social science and public health research since 2002 and currently manages research studies at Columbia University.

At the end of the Day with Adam Phillips, a friend of both Adams and mine said something to me like, Ah, so thats what it is like to experience Adam Phillips attention. Those in attendance that day felt both lucky and grateful for our experience of Adams humility, good nature, compassion, stamina and depth.

Thanks to Leslie Hendelman and John Bliss. The idea for inviting Adam to ICP began in a conversation among the three of us and Leslie did a great deal of the initial work to make this conference possible

Ron Taffel, whose expansive vision and management of ICP continuously amaze me, has supported this project with his usual diplomacy and clarity.

Holly Levenkron, the enthusiastic and creative director of ICPs Analytic Training Program, and I invited a few candidates, supervisors and faculty to read Adams essay The Magic of Winnicott in advance of The Day. Questions were prepared and following The Day several wrote commentaries of their experience. To Tom, Melissa, Betty, Karen, Kathleen, John and Leslie and Patricia, you have our appreciation and admiration.

I continuously sought the advice and guidance of Pearl-Ellen Gordon and Patricia Clough, whom I could always xii count on for their good humour and insight.

Val Trina transcribed the original recording, formatted and edited the manuscript for publication no small feat! This book could not have come together without Vals good-natured and dedicated efforts.

Christina Wipf Perry, the publisher at Confer, has welcomed this book with skill and grace.

Ed Corrigan

I want to thank audiences at Confer and at York University where these lectures were first given. Some very useful and interesting discussions contributed significantly to the final version of these essays.

Adam Phillips