01 Sigmund Freud with Adam Phillips

In the first episode of Disquieted Life, Emma talks to the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips about mental health and the ideas of the physician and writer Sigmund Freud.

‘Medicine is not a good model for so-called mental health, because there isn’t something really called mental health, people are more or less unhappy, more or less troubled, more or less feel their lives are not their own. And that needs to be addressed.’

– Adam Phillips, Psychoanalyst

 On this episode:

• Adam Phillips was formally principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. Today he is one of Britain’s leading psychoanalysts and writers. He is the author of many books including ‘Terrors and Experts’ and ‘Going Sane.’
• Emma Williams is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Warwick. She is the author of ‘The Ways We Think: From the Straits of Reason to the Possibilities of Thought.’ She was formally Philosopher-in-Residence at Rugby School.

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