What is kindness?
Does it make us happier?
And does it have a place in a selfish world?
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are at our most open and honest, they ask why it is that our faith in kindness has been shaken – and why we are all too ready to believe that antagonism has taken its place.
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'Rewarding reading' Evening Standard
'Elegantly argued' Irish Times
Adam Phillips
Going Sane
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Volumes have been dedicated to madness, but sanity is rarely mentioned. We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In Going Sane, psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history, philosophy, ... Buy or find out more →
Winnicott
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
D. W. Winnicott’s remarkable books, including The Piggle, Home Is Where We Start From and The Child, Family and the Outside World (all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with over thirty years after ... Buy or find out more →
On Kindness
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
What is kindness?
Does it make us happier?
And does it have a place in a selfish world?
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history,... Buy or find out more →
On Balance
$35.95 – Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company
It’s hard to find a balance these days, in our society obsessed with material luxury, consumption and competition. In this highly anticipated series of absorbing, provocative essays, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips takes a l... Buy or find out more →
On Balance
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
It’s hard to find a balance these days, in our society obsessed with material luxury, consumption and competition. In this highly anticipated series of absorbing, provocative essays, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips takes a l... Buy or find out more →
Monogamy
$27.00 – Paperback book / Faber
All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. About what keeps people together and why they should stay together. Now, in a book of 121 aphorisms, Adam Phillips asks why we all bel... Buy or find out more →