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  • A transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us about who we areAll of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have…
    Missing Out

    Missing Out - In Praise of the Unlived Life

    By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 56 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2013 ISBN: 9781429949538 Health & Well Being, Psychology Language:  English
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  • In this sparkling, provocative collection of meditations on coupledom and its discontents, Adam Phillips manages to unsettle one of our most dearly held ideals, that of the monogamous couple, by…
    Monogamy

    Monogamy

    Vintage By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 117 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, December 2010 ISBN: 9780307772763 Health & Well Being, Psychology Language:  English
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  • Kindness is the foundation of the world’s great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it a pleasure…
    On Kindness

    On Kindness

    By Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor rating of short cover   ( 127 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2010 ISBN: 9781429957571 Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy Language:  English
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  • “Balancing acts,” writes Adam Phillips, “are entertaining because they are risky, but there are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.” In these exhilarating…
    On Balance

    On Balance

    By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 30 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2010 ISBN: 9781429979061 Health & Well Being, Psychology Language:  English
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  • Psychoanalysis works by attending to the patient's side effects, "what falls out of his pockets once he starts speaking." Undergoing psychoanalytic therapy is always a leap into the dark-like…
    Side Effects

    Side Effects

    By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 30 customer ratings) HarperCollins, October 2009 ISBN: 9780061873430 Health & Well Being, Psychology Language:  English
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  • Being sane has long been defined simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. While writings on madness fill entire libraries, until now no one has thought to engage exclusively…
    Going Sane

    Going Sane

    By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 86 customer ratings) HarperCollins, October 2009 ISBN: 9780061873645 Health & Well Being, Psychology Language:  English
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  • If you are disturbed by the idea that to grow up is to learn to live with disillusionment, if you are fascinated by the perplexity of child-rearing, or if you fear you were more creative as a child…
    The Beast in the Nursery

    The Beast in the Nursery - On Curiosity and Other Appetites

    Vintage By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 37 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, December 2010 ISBN: 9780307772756 Child & Adolescent, Child Psychology Language:  English
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  • In this uniquely brilliant and insightful book, acclaimed essayist and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips meditates on the notion of escape in our society and in ourselves.No one can escape the desire and…
    Houdini's Box

    Houdini's Box - The Art of Escape

    Vintage By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 40 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, December 2010 ISBN: 9780307772794 Health & Well Being, Psychology Language:  English
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  • As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this…
    Promises, Promises: Essays On Psychoanalysis And Literature

    Promises, Promises: Essays On Psychoanalysis And Literature

    By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 32 customer ratings) Basic Books, June 2009 ISBN: 9780786748624 Health & Well Being, Psychology Language:  English
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  • Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new…
    Darwin's Worms On Life Stories And Death Stories

    Darwin's Worms On Life Stories And Death Stories

    By Adam Phillips rating of short cover   ( 49 customer ratings) Basic Books, June 2009 ISBN: 9780786748617 Health & Well Being, Psychology Language:  English
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