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Book SynopsisAdam 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 and literary criticism, including most recently
Attention Seeking, In Writing and
Unforbidden Pleasures. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Trade ReviewThe best living essayist writing in English
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *
He's brilliant
Characteristically brilliant
Elegant and lucid...
This erudite and absorbing book oozes intelligence and charm * Independent *
Brave, idiosyncratic and refreshing... Innovative and eclectic... Profound... It is heartening to read anyone, let alone a psychoanalyst, who writes so well * The Times *
Exceptional... Irresistable, both as a guide to living and an exploration of the links between behaviour and mortality * Times Educational Supplement *
