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Adam Phillips on psychology

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Reviewing ‘White Fragility’: Psychoanalysis with Racism

Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst as well as one of the most influential essayists and thinkers writing today.

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Adam Phillips
2021
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On Getting Better

To talk about getting better―about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer―is to talk about pursuing the life we want, in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from what we have already experienced.

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Adam Phillips
2022
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One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips – Review

How should we read psychoanalysis? Many of its great theorists – Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Jacques Lacan – trained as doctors, and their successors tend to follow the rigid formulae of academic papers.

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Daniel Cohen
2013
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Intimacies

Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy.

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Leo Bersani, Adam Phillips
2010
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Adam Phillips on 'Attention Seeking'

Adam Phillips talks to Devorah Baum about his latest book, 'Attention Seeking', which argues, among other things, that attention seeking is the best thing we do.

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Adam Phillips
2019
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The Cure for Psychoanalysis

This book presents a day long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes two brilliant essays that reveal what is at the heart of psychoanalysis – a practice that can enable both analyst and patient to live life more fully.

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Adam Phillips
2025
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This Is Your Life

Adam Phillips, Britain’s foremost psychoanalytic writer, dislikes the modern notion that we should all be out there fulfilling our potential, and this is the subject of his new book, “Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

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Joan Acocella
2013
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One Way and Another

Adam Phillips, one of Britain's most renowned psychoanalysts and literary figures, joins RSA Chief Executive Matthew Taylor for a conversation about life, the universe, and everything (and maybe a little Freud as well).

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Adam Phillips
2014
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On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

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 to worrying.

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Adam Phillips
1994
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Adam Phillips by Sameer Padania

Late in June, I interviewed British psychoanalyst and prolific essayist Adam Phillips about his new collection of essays, On Balance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which ranges over fundamentalism, W. H. Auden, sleep, and the idea of excess.

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Sameer Padania
2010
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