On February 26th and 27th 2025, The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate, in partnership with the UCLA Department of English and the Hammer Museum, will be hosting internationally acclaimed psychoanalyst and author, Dr. Adam Phillips, for a three-event series, which will include a lecture and a seminar at UCLA, and a talk at the Hammer Museum (see below for event details) devoted to kindness and hate.

Phillips, who has been called “the best living essayist writing in English” and “Britain’s foremost contemporary psychoanalysis thinker” (The New Yorker), is one of the world’s most celebrated and wide-ranging intellectuals. He has authored many critically acclaimed works of psychoanalysis, literary criticism, and commentary including On Kindness, Missing Out, Unforbidden Pleasures, In Writing, Becoming Freud, and On Getting Better. Formerly a principal child psychotherapist, he is currently the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a visiting professor in the English Department at the University of York.

February 26th at 4 pm: A Lecture, “On Resistance”

Description: In this lecture, Adam Phillips will explore the notion of resistance in psychoanalysis

Location: James West Alumni Center Collins Room

Registration details and link coming soon.

February 27th at noon: A Seminar, “Exploring Christopher Bollas’s ‘The Transformational Object.”

Description: Adam Phillips will lead a seminar with UCLA students, faculty, and staff that explores the paper, “The Transformational Object” by Christopher Bollas. Bollas’s work will be distributed to registrants prior to the seminar. Lunch will be served.

Location: Young Research Library Main Conference Room

Register HERE!

February 27th at 7:30 pm: A Conversation: “On Kindness and Hate.”

Description: UCLA English Professors David Russell and Mona Simpson will join Adam Phillips in a conversation on Kindness, Hate, Missing Out, Wanting to Change, Getting Better, and Giving Up.

Location: The Hammer Museum

For more information and ticketing, click HERE!

Please note The Hammer Museum assigns seats on a first come, first served basis.