An Interview with Adam Phillips

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 and was the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. His most recent books are Missing Out, One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays and Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, is the Interview Editor for Psychoanalytic Perspectives and a board-certified psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. She received her graduate degree from NYU and her postgraduate analytic and supervisory training from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute. She has a private practice in New York City, where she treats individuals, couples, and groups and currently is a clinical supervisor and advisor for NIP-TI. She additionally devotes a part of her practice to those in the arts, having also had a successful career as a performer for 30 years.
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