The Authority of Tenderness: An Interview with Paul Williams

Paul Williams / Chair: J.M. Coetzee

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British psychoanalyst Dr Paul Williams has written extensively about the human mind, including a trilogy drawing on aspects of the author’s life over three stages – childhood, adolescence and adulthood. His latest book, The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis, is the final in the trilogy. In a conversation with Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee, Williams reflects on the adult’s task of recollecting, rewriting and reworking psychosis and trauma.

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J.M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace, Diary of a Bad Yea, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons and trilogy of novels: The Childhood of Jesus, The Schooldays of Jesus and The Death of Jesus.

Dr Paul Williams is a psychoanalyst who trained at the British Psychoanalytical Society. Recently, he completed a trilogy on the experiences of the psychotic mind and failing self: The Fifth Principle, Scum and The Authority of Tenderness.

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