Have you ever had the sudden fear that you didn’t lock the back door? Or the disturbing thought of jumping in front of an oncoming train?
You are not alone. Most of us experience strange thoughts and compulsions that occur to us ‘out of the blue’. They can sometimes be distressing and embarassing, but they are also very common. For many people, they spiral into the living nightmare of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
OCD is estimated to afflict roughly 750,000 people in the UK alone. But what exactly is it? Where do its characteristic thoughts and compulsions come from? And can a psychoanalytic approach shed light on this debilitating condition?
Join David Adam and Oliver James for an intimate exploration of the experience of OCD and its possible explanations.
David Adam is an award-winning journalist, formerly of the Guardian, and currently an editor at the science journal Nature. He is the author of The Man Who Couldn’t Stop, an intimate look at the power of intrusive thoughts, how our brain can turn against us and what it means to live with Obsessive-compulsive Disorder.
Oliver James is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. Since 1988, he has worked as a writer, journalist, broadcaster and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include the best-selling Affluenza, They F*** You Upand Love Bombing.
Part of a season of performances, talks, workshops and events accompanying the 'Festival of the Unconscious' exhibition, 24 June - 4 October 2015.
Psychoanalytic Poetry Festival 2015: Memory and Memorialisation
Contemporary Art at the Freud Museum
Every cloud has a silver lining: Renata Salecl in conversation with Patrizio Di Massimo
The Construction of Memory 3: Dany Nobus & Sharon Kivland
The Construction of Memory 2: Martin Conway & Chris French
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis, Consciousness and the Human Soul
Not Gentle Creatures: Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich
At Home with Ernst Freud, architect son of Sigmund Freud
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 9: Closing Group Discussion
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 8: Groups, Social Issues and the Social Unconscious
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 7
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 6
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 5: Psychic Growth
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 4
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 3
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 2
Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition 1: Internalization and the Status of Internal Objects
Miroslaw Balka and James Putnam in conversation
Making Sense of Dementia 2: Making a present of the past
Making Sense of Dementia 1: Preservation of emotion-based learning despite profound amnesia
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