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Adam Phillips (19 September 1954 [1]) is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist. Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
Mar 20, 2024 · In his latest book, the prolific British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips promotes curiosity, improvisation and conflict as antidotes to the deadening effects of absolute certainty.
Jun 9, 2014 · That’s precisely what Adam Phillips — Britain’s most celebrated psychoanalytical writer and the author of such immeasurably stimulating reads as Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life, and the particularly wonderful On Kindness ...
Feb 17, 2013 · Adam Phillips, Britain’s foremost psychoanalytic writer, dislikes the modern notion that we should all be out there fulfilling our potential, and this is the subject of his new book, “Missing...
Mar 3, 2022 · The first—“On Cure”—tackles the shifting ambitions and views of psychoanalysis, from remedy to something nearer to “adventure.”. Other pieces reflect on the questions of “Pleasure,” “Truth” and the idea of what it means to be ourselves, rather than other people.
Apr 2, 2024 · The prolific writings of Adam Phillips epitomise this modern day humanistic expression of psychoanalytic thinking. Phillips, who has worked for many years in England as a psychotherapist, is...
May 1, 2017 · Interview with Adam Phillips: The Art of Nonfiction No. 7, adapted from The Paris Review – May 1, 2017. Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1954. He was educated at Oxford, where he read English. Later he trained as a child psychotherapist and would become the principal at Charing Cross Hospital, in London.
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