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(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780241986721
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780241979235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780241541883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780241656594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780241291771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9781913494384
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Karnac Books
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This book presents a day long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes two brilliant essays that reveal what is at the heart of psychoanalysis.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780141012506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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 often most telling about our unconscious lives.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780006860945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1989
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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 has been increasingly regarded as an influential contribution to psychoanalysis.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9781405958035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, Main)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780571206650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 18th November 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This text explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a series of escapes; a man always in flight from women; and Emily Dickinson who spends her life in solitary confinement.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780141031811
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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 - that can trouble and even haunt us. This title delves into the gap between who we are and who we are not, to discover whether not getting what we want may be the unlikely key to the fully lived life.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780571174904
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 6th November 1995
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780141039336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 27th November 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What is kindness Does it make us happier And does it have a place in a selfish world This title presents an analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780241964101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, Main)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780571209736
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 18th November 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train".


(Paperback, Main)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780571175840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 1997
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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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 to be known, and sets out to show how self-knowledge is the problem rather than the solution.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780141187433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780241964088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Adam Phillips

ISBN: 9780141031507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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 after his death. This title attempts to get to grips with a writer, paediatrician and psychiatrist whose work with children and mothers continues to be relevant and fascinating.