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

By Daniel Cohen — 2013

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. However, for Adam Phillips, a practising psychoanalyst who is also a perceptive literary critic, it is "more illuminating" to consider psychoanalysts as poets "rather than failed or aspiring scientists".

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J. Krishnamurti in Conversation with David Bohm: Is There an Action Not Touched by Thought?

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J. Krishnamurti

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