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From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.

We live in a world in which we are invited to changeto become our best selves through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy. We change all the timegrowing older and olderand how we think about change changes over time too.

We want to think of our lives as progress mythsas narratives of positive personal growthat the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.

Adam Phillips's sparkling book On Wanting to Change explores the stories we tell about change, and the changes we actually makeand the fact that they don't always go, or come, together.

On Wanting to Change

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 4 January 2022
      ISBN-13 9780374172046
      978-0374172046
      ISBN-10 0374172048
      Also in:
      Health & Wellbeing Self-help, personal development and practical advice Social, group or collective psychology Science & Nature Neurosciences Self Help & Mindfulness

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.

      We live in a world in which we are invited to changeto become our best selves through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy. We change all the timegrowing older and olderand how we think about change changes over time too.

      We want to think of our lives as progress mythsas narratives of positive personal growthat the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.

      Adam Phillips's sparkling book On Wanting to Change explores the stories we tell about change, and the changes we actually makeand the fact that they don't always go, or come, together.

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