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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On Kindness

On Kindness

by Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor

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What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of... (more)

Civilisation and Its Discontents

Civilisation and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

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In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all... (more)

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

by Sigmund Freud

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This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients.... (more)

The Schreber Case

The Schreber Case

by Sigmund Freud

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Freud rarely treated psychotic patients but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition - revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a remarkable memoir. In 1903, Judge Daniel... (more)

The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases

The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases

by Sigmund Freud

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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)

Winnicott

Winnicott

by Adam Phillips

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D.W. Winnicott's remarkable books, including The Piggle, Home Is Where We Start From and The Child, the Family and the Outside World are still read, valued and argued with over thirty years after his... (more)

The Penguin Freud Reader

The Penguin Freud Reader

by Sigmund Freud

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Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case... (more)

The Uncanny

The Uncanny

by Sigmund Freud

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Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The major pieces collected here explore the vivid but seemingly trivial childhood memories that often screen far more... (more)

Attention Seeking

Attention Seeking

by Adam Phillips

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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)

The Cure for Psychoanalysis

The Cure for Psychoanalysis

by Adam Phillips

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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... (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

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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)

The Psychology of Love

The Psychology of Love

by Sigmund Freud

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A collection of Freud's major texts on love, human relations and loss, including: "The Taboo on Virginity"; "On Female Sexuality"; "A Child is Being Beaten"; "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"... (more)

Studies in Hysteria

Studies in Hysteria

by Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer

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One of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, this work presents accounts of case histories of hysterics and three theoretical essays on hysteria. (more)

In Writing

In Writing

by Adam Phillips

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A collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connections between literature and psychoanalysis - from Britain's leading psychoanalyst. For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many... (more)

Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings

Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings

by Sigmund Freud

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On the Introduction of Narcissism/Remembering, Repeating and Working Through/Beyond the Pleasure Principle/The Ego and the Id/Inhibition, Symptom and Fear

In Freud’s view we are driven by the... (more)

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

by Sigmund Freud

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New Introductory Lectures (1932) and An Outline of Psychoanalysis (1938).

No discovery has done more to shape modernity than Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the part it plays in determining... (more)

Wild Analysis

Wild Analysis

by Sigmund Freud

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'Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient's capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. When Freud is writing about technique in... (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)

On Balance

On Balance

by Adam Phillips

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Are we too obsessed with excess? What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour? And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be? In On Balance, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam... (more)

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

by Adam Phillips

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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... (more)

On Flirtation

On Flirtation

by Adam Phillips

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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)

On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

by Adam Phillips

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In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own distinctive version of psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural... (more)

Mass Psychology and Other Writings

Mass Psychology and Other Writings

by Sigmund Freud

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Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In... (more)

The Unconscious

The Unconscious

by Sigmund Freud

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One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our... (more)

On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

by Sigmund Freud

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Written against a backdrop of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our primitive past and civilized modernity. (more)

Going Sane

Going Sane

by Adam Phillips

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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, literature, and his own experiences to address... (more)

Interpreting Dreams

Interpreting Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

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One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this project reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers.... (more)

Side Effects

Side Effects

by Adam Phillips

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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... (more)

Monogamy

Monogamy

by Adam Phillips

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To discuss monogamy is to discuss most of the things that matter to us. In this accessible work, the author explores why relationships go wrong, how monogamy comes with infidelity built in, and why... (more)

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