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On Balance

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(49 reviews)

In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain's most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns - many centred around the idea of balance. When... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

Attention Seeking

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(98 reviews)

'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. There is our official curiosity and... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

On Flirtation

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(15 reviews)

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the pleasures of uncertainty. These buoyant essays promote a psychoanalysis with a light touch, a... See More

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Intimacies

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(15 reviews)

Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

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(290 reviews)

Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam Phillips. We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

Winnicott

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(95 reviews)

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... See More

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In Writing

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(20 reviews)

Incisive and highly original, an investigation of the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, from Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On Kindness, the essential Adam... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

Promises, Promises

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(18 reviews)

Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection of essays which... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

On Kindness

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(138 reviews)

The pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of western thought. Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind's 'greatest delight' - and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers have echoed him. But today... See More

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On Wanting to Change

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(81 reviews)

From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives. We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

Side Effects

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(8 reviews)

Side effects are things we do not intend. And, in this collection of essays, Adam Phillips examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored

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(37 reviews)

Tickle a child, and she peals with laughter. Go on too long, and her laughter is sure to turn to tears. Where is that ticklish line between pleasure and pain? Why do we risk its being crossed? Does psychoanalysis possess the... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays

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(23 reviews)

A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer' 'Phillips's prose is poetic in the best sense: it is muscular, resonant, and... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

Monogamy

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(75 reviews)

'A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.' All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. About what keeps people together and why they... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

Going Sane

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(44 reviews)

Volumes have been dedicated to madness, but sanity is rarely mentioned. We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In Going Sane, psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history, philosophy... See More

£7.99 Price verified 12 hours ago
Biography & True Accounts

Houdini's Box: The Art of Escape

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(10 reviews)

Why are we all so spellbound by ideas of escape - and yet so dismissive of mere escapism? Houdini's Box explores four different escape artists. There is the case history of a little girl who is oddly committed to playing her... See More

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Biography & True Accounts

Equals

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(3 reviews)

Does psychoanalysis teach us that freedom and equality are impossible for human beings? We would all like to think of ourselves as freedom-loving, egalitarian and democratic. Yet Freud has taught us that everything we do... See More

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Horror

9Tales Told in the Dark #17 (9Tales Dark)

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(5 reviews)

Terrifying tales of zombies, cursed spirits, and the end times are here to give you a fright. Come join today's freshest new voices in horror: THIS ISSUE INCLUDES: LAST BUS FOR THE FUTURE by George Strasburg MIKEY MIKEY by... See More

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Biography & True Accounts

The great survival manual Survival in emergency and extreme situations: The ultimate survival techniques from the survival and bushcraft experts. Become a survivor and master every crisis

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(7 reviews)

How you are best equipped for every life-threatening emergency and extreme situation and how to stay alive - no matter what the conditions! Would you know what to do if you caught a forest fire or were buried in an... See More

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Food & Drink

INTERVAL FASTING For working women and men: Lose weight vitally, live healthily and longer, burn fat without hunger and stimulate the metabolism and build muscle with the 16: 8 method

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(3 reviews)

If you care about losing weight, this book will be right for you. The book is concentrated knowledge on over 200 pages and over 50 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, smoothies,... many Greetings and have fun... See More

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Food & Drink

Everyone Can Bake Bread in a Pot: The bread baking book for bread with sourdough, yeast, baking bread without kneading & more - perfect bread baking for beginners and advanced learners

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(1 review)

About the book: Baking bread has never been so easy! Baking bread is trendy. It's a wonderful way to take control of your diet and avoid artificial additives and unhealthy ingredients. Moreover, when the scent of freshly... See More

£2.83 Price verified 14 hours ago
Self-Help & Counselling

The Cure for Psychoanalysis

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(29 reviews)

This book contains two brilliant essays by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. In the first essay, 'The Magic of Winnicott,' Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and wisdom of Winnicott's concept... See More

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Health & Fitness

Stories from Funeral Celebrants

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(7 reviews)

Stories from Funeral Celebrants is a wonderful collection of stories about how funeral celebrants create memorable end of life rituals. It has 11 stories that tell about adding humor to a funeral ceremony to bringing pets to... See More

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Self-Help & Counselling

On Getting Better

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(48 reviews)

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... See More

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Business & Investing

It's the Money Guy: Show Me the Money

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(5 reviews)

People, more than ever, need to look after their money, earn more and retain more. First time buyers have a particularly hard time getting onto the property ladder, savers have a hard time earning anything of real value and... See More

£3.99 Price verified one day ago
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