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Adam Phillips
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.
To give up or not to give up?
The question can feel inescapable…
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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…
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Stephen Greenblatt, Adam Phillips
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
From a death row prison on a storm-swept coast to the dark old-growth forests of Oregon, to the hardscrabble semi-pro diamonds of the unsettled West, a dark figure and a…
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Sigmund Freud
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. This book discusses about techniques…
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Written in his epigrammatic and aphoristic style, this title extends Adam Phillips’s probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the usefulness of…
A dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives by Britain’s foremost psychoanalyst –
The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a…
Adam Phillips has come to an uncertain crossroads in his life when a clear purpose finally reveals itself; don't die from cancer. As the odd side effects of chemo gradually…
In "The Pieces You Left," the delicate tapestry of loss and remembrance is intricately woven through vivid imagery and raw emotion. Each poem captures the fleeting moments and lingering echoes…
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In "You and Me in Every Lifetime," the eternal dance of love and connection unfolds through a tapestry of verses that transcend time and space. This collection explores the profound…
"Time-Traveling Sandwiches" is a whimsical collection that defies the boundaries of time and taste, inviting readers to embark on a surreal culinary journey. Each poem unveils a deliciously imaginative tale…
"Chasing Sunsets Together" is a heartfelt collection of poems that captures the beauty of shared moments as day turns to night. Each verse paints a vivid picture of love, friendship…
Attention Seeking is a short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness –
"Originally published in 2024 by Hamish Hamilton, Great Britain"-- Title page verso.
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…
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Roland Barthes
The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.
If you are disturbed by the idea that to grow up is to learn to live with disillusionment, if you are fascinated by the perplexity of child-rearing, or if you…
James Patterson
"When Ali Cross, son of the famous detective Alex Cross, discovers his best friend is missing, it's up to Ali to follow in his father's footsteps and solve the case"--
John Quincy Adams, Former, Wendell Phillips
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
John Banville
The book of evidence: Freddie Montgomery is an aimless, eccentric, and highly cultured man whose arrest for the murder of a servant girl prompts him to offer the reader an…
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The biography of Donald Winnicott, a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who spent nearly all of his professional life at Paddington Green Children’s Hospital, London. His work and writing about children…
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? This title explores…
In this collection of essays, Adam Phillips reaches beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, novels, poetry, and history to speculate on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature.
Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the…
Readers will be engrossed with this collection of some of the most enviable supercars on Earth, from yesterday’s Ferrari Testarosa to today’s Bugatti Veyron. Each auto profile sports a brief…
From one of the world’s most respected and original psychoanalysts comes a groundbreaking and reassuring book on the nature of sanity and madness.
Side effects are things we do not intend. This collection of essays examines how the things we don’t mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are…
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…
Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. This book uses the biographical details of Darwin’s and…
Sex is often the closest they can get.‘ All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. Monogamy is so much taken for granted as the foundation…
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 conversation…
A discussion of ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and of the idea of expertise itself. The author challenges the conventional idea of the self as something…
Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the pleasures of uncertainty.
A habitual drifter and a college basketball star tell concurrent stories of how they are lost, alternately destroyed and hopeful, as they try to figure out what to do with…
We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? Answering this question, the author delves deep into history, philosophy, literature, and his own experiences to address questions…
This book presents a day long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes two brilliant essays that reveal what is at the heart of psychoanalysis.
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DW Winnicott’s books, including The Piggle , Home Is Where We Start From and The Child , Family and the Outside World are still read, valued and argued with years…
