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...

Vom Küssen, Kitzeln und Gelangweiltsein von Phillips, Adam

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 works by attending to the patient's side effects, "what falls out of his pockets once he starts speaking." Undergoing psychoanalytic therapy is always a leap into the dark?like dedicating our hearts and intellect to a...