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Phillips, Adam and Williams, Emma (2022) ‘Psychoanalysis is one more way of taking people seriously’ : Adam Phillips in conversation with Emma Williams. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56 (1). pp. 180-189. doi:10.1111/1467-9752.12624 ISSN 0309-8249.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12624
Abstract
Adam Phillips is a leading psychoanalyst and author. Phillips was educated at Clifton College and studied English Literature at Oxford University. He trained to be a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Child Psychology. Across the course of his professional career, he has worked at Guys Hospital, with a school for ‘maladjusted children’, at Camberwell Child Guidance Clinic and at Charing Cross Hospital in the Department of Child Psychiatry. He now works in private practice. Phillips is the author of many works, including Terrors and Experts (1997), In Writing: Essays on Literature (2016), Attention Seeking (2019) and his most recent book, The Cure for Psychoanalysis (2021). He also served as the General Editor of the New Penguin Classics Translations of the works of Sigmund Freud.
The conversation begins by exploring the way mental health has become a topic of public interest as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The opportunities and challenges in Phillips's experience working with schools and for young people's mental health services during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s are then discussed. Questions about the nature of psychoanalysis are introduced, and the discussion turns towards the relationship between philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis. There is a brief discussion of connections between Phillips's work and the philosophy of Stanley Cavell. Phillips's essays on schools and education are explored in connection with ideas of omniscience, sadomasochism and ‘experiments in living’. The conversation ends with a glimpse of school as a place to cultivate one's interest and one's sociability with others.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LC Special aspects of education R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Phillips, Adam, Psychoanalysis and education , Mental health , Schools -- Social aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Philosophy of Education | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0309-8249 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 56 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 180-189 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9752.12624 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Phillips, A. & Williams, E. (2022) ‘Psychoanalysis is one more way of taking people seriously’: Adam Phillips in conversation with Emma Williams. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56, 180– 189., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12624. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Description: | Special Issue of the Journal of Philosophy of Education |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 April 2022 |
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