Adam Phillips is a British psychoanalyst and acclaimed author of works that straddle philosophy, poetry, and politics.
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Adam Phillips and Paul Holdengräber discuss ‘Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life’ and many other things.
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.
Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies.
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.
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.
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.
Essays on literature.
