Sex is often the closest they can get.' All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. Monogamy is so much taken for granted as the foundation of the family and of family values that, as with...

"One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays" von Adam Phillips ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sowohl neue als auch bereits veröffentlichte Arbeiten des renommierten britischen Psychoanalytikers und Schriftstellers zusammenbringt. In...

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...

„Intimacies“ von Adam Phillips ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich mit der Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen und der Natur des Verlangens auseinandersetzt. Phillips, ein renommierter Psychoanalytiker, untersucht in diesen Texten...

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"On Giving Up: What Must We Give Up to Feel More Alive?" von Adam Phillips untersucht die paradoxe Idee, dass Verzicht und Loslassen entscheidend für ein erfülltes Leben sein können. Phillips, ein renommierter Psychoanalytiker,...

Being sane has long been defined simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. While writings on madness fill entire libraries, until now no one has thought to engage exclusively with the idea of sanity.In a society...

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...

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. von...

From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or...

Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst von Phillips, Adam

To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come...