On Balance
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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(49 reviews)
Quick ViewIn 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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Quick View'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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Quick ViewAdam 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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Quick ViewTwo 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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Quick ViewMissing 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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Quick ViewIncisive 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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Quick ViewHas 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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Quick ViewIn 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... See More
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Quick ViewThe 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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Quick ViewFrom 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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Quick ViewSide 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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Quick ViewTickle 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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Quick ViewBecoming Freud is the story of the young Freud -- Freud up until the age of fifty -- that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the... See More
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Quick ViewA 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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Quick ViewVolumes 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
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Quick ViewWhy 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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Quick ViewTerrifying 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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Quick ViewHow 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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Quick ViewIf 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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Quick ViewAbout 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
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Quick ViewGas grill cookbook for beginners - as a hardcover - grill properly now! Gas grill cookbook with 155 grill recipes: Meat, fish, vegetables, marinades, sauces and salads - With a guidebook: Grilling with a gas grill for... See More
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Quick ViewAbout 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
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Quick ViewThis 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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Quick ViewStories 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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Quick ViewTo 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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Quick ViewPeople, 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
Can rats learn to surf? How fat was the fattest cat? How many Lego bricks would it take to reach the Moon? Find out the answers to these questions and many, many more in this fascinating fact book. With clear, engaging text... See More