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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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Phillip Adams
For 21 years Phillip Adams has hosted Late Night Live, one of Radio National’s flagship programs, expertly batting questions to world leaders, thinkers, ideologues, crackpots and gurus. In singular style…
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Adam Phillips has come to an uncertain crossroads in his life when a clear purpose finally reveals itself; don't die from cancer. As the odd side effects of chemo gradually…
"A new book from the acclaimed psychoanalytic writer Adam Phillips on giving up to feel more alive"--
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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From one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis
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…
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…
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Stephen Greenblatt, Adam Phillips
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
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"--
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John Quincy Adams, Former, Wendell Phillips
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
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…
No calm after the storm.
Phillip Adams,Patrice Newell
A page a day keeps the doctor away! In a world of war, woes and worries, this little volume is at least as good as valium. Read the pages aloud…
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Joan Lindsay
A must-read memoir for fans of Australian literary and art history, written by Picnic at Hanging Rock author Joan Lindsay
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Richard D. Phillips
Noted pastor-scholars defend the historicity of Genesis 13 and unpack its profound implications for human nature, original sin, the gospel, Gods intent for human sexuality, redemption, and more.
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Readers will be engrossed with this collection of some of the most enviable supercars on Earth, from yesterday’s Ferrari Testarosa to today’s Bugatti Veyron. Each auto profile sports a brief…
This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom…
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…
On Getting Better is a thoughtful and compact book about self-improvement from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness –
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…
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…
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…
This text explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a…
Originally published in 2019 by Penguin Books, Great Britain –Title page verso.
A dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives by Britain’s foremost psychoanalyst –
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…
Written in his epigrammatic and aphoristic style, this title extends Adam Phillips’s probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the usefulness of…
