Summary
A much requested reissue of Adam Phillips’ famous first book.
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. Adam Phillips’s short book, now issued with a new preface, is an elegant, thoughtful attempt to get to grips with a writer, paediatrician, and psychiatrist whose work w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141031507 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141031506 |
| Author: | Adam Phillips |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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What They're Saying
Critics Review
The best living essayist writing in English
The best living essayist writing in English
He’s brilliant
Phillips radiates infectious charm * Sunday Times *
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *
He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world’s best essayists
About The Author
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
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