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On Kindness

Author(s) : Adam Phillips, Author(s) : Barbara Taylor

Book Details

Publisher : Penguin Books
Published : 2009
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 128
Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis
Category 2 :
Popular Psychology
Catalogue No : 29618
ISBN 13 : 9780141039336
ISBN 10 : 0141039337

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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 kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are at our most open and honest, they ask why it is that our faith in kindness has been shaken - and why we are all too ready to believe that antagonism has taken its place.

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Adam Phillips is a practicing psychoanalyst, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking and Unforbidden Pleasures.

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Barbara Taylor is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches history and English at Queen Mary University of London.

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