Adam Phillips

That's a good question because the first thing I thought when you said, "What's good?" I thought about [laughs] funny that I'm talking about children, and I'm talking about my own children as, uh, the, the source of, uh, oh, goodness, in my life.

What I recommend, I-- one of the books I loved the most, uh, in the last year is, uh, Miranda July's All Fours, and Miranda is joining me for the book launch, uh, of Come Closer and, uh, together with Adam Phillips, the psychoanalyst.

And so I really-- Part of what I loved about that book is that it's a book about life and death.

It's a book about our e-emotional deadness and the parts of us that, um, needs to be enlivened.

Just join us.

It's an online vir- virtual event with Adam Phillips, psych, a British psychoanalyst, and Miranda July, and Gary Goldman, and a Noga Erez, um, the musician.

And we'll have really interesting conversations to launch Come Closer.

And when does the book come out? Forgive me.

You know, this is what, this is the work.

And yet, we sort of, it's so, I think I, Adam Phillips might have said this among many others, but that's like, we institutionalized our humanity and yet our practice is based on the liberation and sort of celebration of somebody else's humanity.

And it's absurd.

And yet, here we are having these discussions and it's like, There's a million modalities and a million schools.

When stories become repetitive, I am unlucky, I am broken, they trap us in pain.

Adam Phillips observed that repetition is forgetting in its most spellbinding form.

Tom, a man who saw himself as a failure, rewrote his narrative by separating facts from interpretation.

He realized survival and resilience were his true story.