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Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures, and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Roy...

Psychotherapist Adam Phillips focuses on a variety of subjects rarely investigated by psychoanalysis--such things as kissing, worrying, risk, and solitude. Phillips rejects the common notion that only the examined life is worth living, asserting that one's psychic health depends on establishing a realm of life that successfully resists interpretation.

A startlingly original psychoanalytic writer takes on death, loss, and the telling of life stories through an exploration of Darwin and Freud

Every day, we are told that balance is a good thing. We are supposed to make balanced judgments, balance our budget, and preserve a balance of power in our government. Disturbed people are described as unbalanced. In this insightful, charming book, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips looks afresh at balance (and its shadow, excess) and asks if achieving the former is such an admirable goal. From this perspective, Phillips examines ...

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An HR manager in L.A. finds his purpose in life by moonlighting as a private detective.

AN AMBITIOUS BOOK THAT EXPLORES THE PHILOSOPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS THAT GOVERN HUMAN DESIRE AND SHAPE OUR EVERYDAY REALITYA great deal has been written, by psychoanalysts and many others, about the pleasures that are forbidden to us. But what of the pleasures that are unforbidden and freely available to all?Using Oscar Wilde as a springboard, Phillips takes a deep dive into the function of taboo in society, beginning with th...

A reissue of Adam Philips' account of the famous psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott, providing an excellent introduction to an important Penguin author.

Donald W. Winnicott (1896-1971) war einer der Ersten, der sich mit den Seelenzuständen von Kindern befasste. Er entwickelte unter anderem die Konzepte des Übergangsobjekts sowie der »ausreichend guten Mutter«. Wer und was beeinflusste diesen faszinierenden Menschen, der oft gegen den Strom der zeitgenössischen Psychoanalyse schwamm? Adam Phillips beleuchtet Winnicotts Lebensweg und zeichnet seine Gedanken nach, die von ungebrochener Aktualität...

Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it often the last pleasure we permit ourselves? And why--despite our longing--are we often suspicious when we are on the receiving end of it? Drawing on intellectual history, literature, psychoanalysis, and contemporary social theory, this brief and essential b...

Features two intellectuals who engage in a dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. In this book, their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination. It explores new ways of thinking about the human psyche.

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present and elegant, Thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life, and in the modern world. Now published in paperback, after a successful hardback edition.

In this uniquely brilliant and insightful book, acclaimed essayist and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips meditates on the notion of escape in our society and in ourselves.No one can escape the desire and need to escape. By analyzing four examples of escape artists—a young girl who hides from others by closing her eyes, a grown man incapable of a relationship, Emily Dickinson, recluse extraordinaire, and Harry Houdini, the quintessential master of es...

In a manner characteristically engaging and challenging, charming and maddening, the author of Winnicott: On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored teases out the complicity between deisre and the forbidden, longing and dread. A chronicle of that all-too-human terror, and of how expertise, in the form of psychoanalysis, Terror and Experts addresses our fears--and turns our terror into meaning.

Adam Phillips, "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness, " brings us a dazzling roundup of provocative essays on psychoanalysis and literature.

In this sparkling, provocative collection of meditations on coupledom and its discontents, Adam Phillips manages to unsettle one of our most dearly held ideals, that of the monogamous couple, by speculating upon the impulses that most threaten it--boredom, desire, and the tempting idea that erotic fulfillment might lie elsewhere. With 121 brilliant aphorisms, the witty, erudite psychoanalyst who gave us On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored di...