Adam phillips

Britain’s foremost psychoanalytic writer argues that, instead of yearning for change, we should enjoy the lives we already have.

In the new issue of AnOther Magazine, Adam Phillips talks about the life-changing influence of Carl Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections

In part one of their conversation, Paul Holdengraber and renowned psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips discuss daily writing habits, Oscar Wilde, Jacques Lacan, and how our parents make us who we…

Adam Gopnik’s beautiful love letter to winter – an ardent case for the splendors of the cold season.

Discover Adam Phillips famous and rare quotes. Share Adam Phillips quotations about children, feelings and sanity. "We have been taught to wish for it..."

Reportage from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign; the dispossessed of Johannesburg; and stars of stage and screen – all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer this month

Adam Phillips on being a child.

On Kindness at Baan Dek

Phillips, A. (2014). Becoming Freud : the making of a psychoanalyst. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press.

Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 7, Adam Phillips

Read 87 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out an…

In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying. He argues that psychoanal...

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