Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: flirtation
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674634403
ISBN-13: 9780674634404

The author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored illuminates the possibilities of flirtation--its risks and instructive amusements--and the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis. The book reveals the virtues of being committed to the open-endedness of life.

Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: balance
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-08-31
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0374212570
ISBN-13: 9780374212575

“Balancing acts,” writes Adam Phillips, “are entertaining because they are risky, but there are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.” In these exhilarating and casually brilliant essays, the philosopher and psychoanalyst examines literature, fairy tales, works of art, and case studies to reveal the paradoxes inherent in our appetites and fears. How do we know when enough is enough? Are there times when too much is just right? Why is Cinderella’s biggest problem not the prince but other women? What can Richard III’s furious sense of his own

Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: experts, terrors
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1997-04-25
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0674874803
ISBN-13: 9780674874800

In a manner characteristically engaging and challenging, charming and maddening, the author of Winnicott: On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored teases out the complicity between deisre and the forbidden, longing and dread. A chronicle of that all-too-human terror, and of how expertise, in the form of psychoanalysis, Terror and Experts addresses our fears--and turns our terror into meaning.

Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: effects
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0007155387
ISBN-13: 9780007155385

Psychoanalysis works by attending to the patient’s side effects, "what falls out of his pockets once he starts speaking." Undergoing psychoanalytic therapy is always a leap into the dark—like dedicating our hearts and intellect to a powerful work of literature, it’s impossible to know beforehand its ultimate effect and consequences. One must remain open to where the "side effects" will lead. Erudite, eloquent, and enthrallingly observant, Adam Phillips is one of the world’s most respected psychoanalysts and a boldly original writer and thinker—and the ideal guide to ex

Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Keywords: happiness, maps, sane, going
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0007155395
ISBN-13: 9780007155392

Writings on madness fill entire libraries, but until now nobody has thought to engage exclusively with the idea of sanity; we define it simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. But what is sanity? How broad, how eccentric is its range of behavior? And how do we go about crafting a creative and fluid definition of a sane existence, one we can guide ourselves by? Madness is always present in our lives -- in the chaos of our experience as babies, the rebellion of our adolescence, the irrational nature of our sexual appetites. In a society governed by indulgence and exce

Authors:Leo Bersani, Adam Phillips,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: intimacies
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0226043517
ISBN-13: 9780226043517

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 psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination—though equally important is their shared sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge and the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis has failed to realize its most exciting and innovative relational potential.            In pursuit of new forms of intimacy they take up a range o

Authors:Michael Eigen, Adam Phillips,
Publisher: Karnac Books
Keywords: tightrope, electrified
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2004-04
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1855753960
ISBN-13: 9781855753969

A collection of exceptional papers by Michael Eigen, selected and assembled by Adam Phillips, that represent 20 years of writing and 30 years of work. The papers examine the tension, caused by the conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship. This volume contains a thought-provoking introduction from Adam Phillips and includes introductory notes for the chapters and a detailed Afterword by Michael Eigen."Eigen is one of the dozen or so most interesting psychoanalysts writing today. "The Electrified Tightrope" presents him in his familiar function as scholar-healer; h