1st talk of the 2025-2026 Conference Series by Bob Fox, LICSW

Bob Fox traces the philosophical and clinical origins of NECET through his formative encounters with Eugene Gendlin’s embodied phenomenology, Aron Gurwitsch’s instruction in Husserl’s theory of intentionality, and Paul Russell’s psychoanalytic teaching of the repetition compulsion. He will explore how the guiding injunction – “Yes. There it is. Attend to it. Follow it.” – has shaped his work as a therapist, teacher and community-builder, and how it continues to inform NECET’s ethos. Situating NECET’s beginnings within a lineage of existential, phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions, Fox invites reflection on how attention to the implicit – in body, language, and relationship – can deepen clinical practice and sustain community over decades.