Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English Department at the University of York. He is the author of several well-known volumes, all widely acclaimed, including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects and recently On Kindness, co-written with historian Barbara Taylor, On Balance, Missing Out and One Way and Another.

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The Psychology of Love

The Psychology of Love

by Sigmund Freud

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This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality... (more)

The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious

The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious

by Sigmund Freud

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Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humor that has... (more)

The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases

The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases

by Sigmund Freud

  • Paperback £12.99

This collection offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in "The Case... (more)

On Flirtation

On Flirtation

by Adam Phillips

  • Paperback £10.99

Building on his previous collection of psychoanalytic essays, On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, the author turns his attention to the subject of flirting. (more)

Undressing

Undressing

by James O'Neill

  • Hardback £9.99

With a Foreword by Adam Phillips.

When therapist-in-training James O'Neill starts his placement at a therapy centre in west London, his first referral is Abraham, a silent and frightened young... (more)

Attention Seeking

Attention Seeking

by Adam Phillips

  • Paperback £6.29 (RRP : £6.99 save £0.70)

A short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness.

What we find of interest may tell us more than we... (more)

On Wanting to Change

On Wanting to Change

by Adam Phillips

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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,... (more)

On Getting Better

On Getting Better

by Adam Phillips

  • Paperback £8.99

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... (more)

Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud

Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud

by Stephen Greenblatt, Adam Phillips

  • Paperback £10.99

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud.

In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance... (more)

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