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Adam Phillips
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.
To give up or not to give up?
The question can feel inescapable…
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Stephen Greenblatt, Adam Phillips
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
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A dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives by Britain’s foremost psychoanalyst –
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Sigmund Freud
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud’s explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case…
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A habitual drifter and a college basketball star tell concurrent stories of how they are lost, alternately destroyed and hopeful, as they try to figure out what to do with…
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From one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis
On Getting Better is a thoughtful and compact book about self-improvement from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness –
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Attention Seeking is a short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness –
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Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient’s capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. This book discusses about techniques…
We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be…
DW Winnicott’s books, including The Piggle , Home Is Where We Start From and The Child , Family and the Outside World are still read, valued and argued with years…
"A new book from the acclaimed psychoanalytic writer Adam Phillips on giving up to feel more alive"--
In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own distinctive version of psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural conversation…
Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar…
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…
Roland Barthes
The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.
James Patterson
"When Ali Cross, son of the famous detective Alex Cross, discovers his best friend is missing, it's up to Ali to follow in his father's footsteps and solve the case"--
John Banville
The book of evidence: Freddie Montgomery is an aimless, eccentric, and highly cultured man whose arrest for the murder of a servant girl prompts him to offer the reader an…
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From a death row prison on a storm-swept coast to the dark old-growth forests of Oregon, to the hardscrabble semi-pro diamonds of the unsettled West, a dark figure and a…
Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the…
In this insightful book, acclaimed essayist and psychoanalyst Phillips meditates on the notion of escape in society and in the self. By analyzing four examples of escape artists, Phillips enables…
This book is a chronicle of the all-too-human terror that drives us into the arms of experts, and of how expertise, as psychoanalysis, addresses our fears, turning our terror into…
From one of the world’s most respected and original psychoanalysts comes a groundbreaking and reassuring book on the nature of sanity and madness.
In this collection of essays, Adam Phillips reaches beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, novels, poetry, and history to speculate on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature.
The author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored illuminates the possibilities of flirtation–its risks and instructive amusements–and the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within…
The biography of Donald Winnicott, a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who spent nearly all of his professional life at Paddington Green Children’s Hospital, London. His work and writing about children…
We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? Answering this question, the author delves deep into history, philosophy, literature, and his own experiences to address questions…
Are we too obsessed with excess? What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour? And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be? This title explores…
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A discussion of ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and of the idea of expertise itself. The author challenges the conventional idea of the self as something…
This book presents a day long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes two brilliant essays that reveal what is at the heart of psychoanalysis.
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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…
Side effects are things we do not intend. This collection of essays examines how the things we don’t mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are…
Throughout his career, Adam Phillips has lent a fresh and incisive dimension to the art of the literary essay. This title collects nineteen pieces that have best defined his thinking…
Britain’s pre-eminent psychoanalyst explores the relationship between writing and psychoanalysis - a fascinating and highly unusual series of literary essays
For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of…
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Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. This book uses the biographical details of Darwin’s and…
Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the pleasures of uncertainty.
In these essays, the author of Darwin’s Worms , The Beast in the Nursery and Houdini’s Box examines such topics as our fantasies of freedom, the nature of inhibition, and…
D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) is now regarded as one of the most influential contributors to psychoanalysis since Freud. In over 40 years of clinical practice, he brought unprecedented skill and…
LONGMIRE returns for its fourth season with more mystery, drama and dark secrets from Absaroka County, Wyoming. The new season finds unflappable Sheriff Walt Longmire and his deputies trying to…
