Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Make it Better: Deep Acts of Listening - Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Maxwell is a poet, playwright, and teacher. His most recent books are The Big Calls (2023) and How The Hell Are You (2020) which was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. In 2012 he published the popular critical guidebook On Poetry, and in 2016 its fictional sequel Drinks With Dead Poets. His New and Selected Poems was published last year in the USA. Since 2023 he has written extensively on poetry, politics and philosophy on his Substack site Silly Games To Save The World. He has taught in the USA at Princeton, Columbia, Amherst, NYU and the New School, and in the UK at the Universities of Warwick and Essex. He is now Head of Studies on the Writing Poetry MA at the Poetry School in Somerset House. This year he is taking the Foundation course at the IOPA and has a placement with the AORT (Rehab-1) team at the Maudsley. He begins the MA in Integrative Arts Therapy at IATE in September.

Series Summary

‘"I must find new words": Dialogues on Poetry and Psychoanalysis’ 

So moved by her experience of being psychoanalysed by Freud, the modernist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) declared, “I must find new words as the Professor found or coined new words to explain certain as yet unrecorded states of mind or being.” This Summer Series, through lectures and discussions with poets, scholars and analysts, considers various encounters between the cultures of poetry and psychoanalysis, their rich historical dialogues, methods of finding and new coinages. 

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