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Adam Phillips is a British psychoanalyst and acclaimed author of works that straddle philosophy, poetry, and politics.

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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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Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels.

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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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In Writing

Essays on literature.

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On Kindness

Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies.

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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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On Wanting to Change

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

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Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott's remarkable books, including "The Piggle", "Home Is Where We Start From" and "The Child", "Family and the Outside World" (all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with over thirty years after his death.

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Attention Seeking

Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves.

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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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