'A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.' All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. About what keeps people...

Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection...

Tickle a child, and she peals with laughter. Go on too long, and her laughter is sure to turn to tears. Where is that ticklish line between pleasure and pain? Why do we risk its being crossed? Does psychoanalysis...

Why are we all so spellbound by ideas of escape - and yet so dismissive of mere escapism? Houdini's Box explores four different escape artists. There is the case history of a little girl who is oddly...

Does psychoanalysis teach us that freedom and equality are impossible for human beings? We would all like to think of ourselves as freedom-loving, egalitarian and democratic. Yet Freud has taught...

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. These buoyant essays promote a psychoanalysis...

As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: a mastery of psychotherapy as both practitioner and theorist, and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection...

The book presents a day-long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes additional contributions from John Bliss, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Edward Corrigan, Holly Levenkron, Kathleen DelMar Miller, Thomas...

Cet essai biographique sur Freud travaille avec l'hostilité de Freud à l'égard de la biographie. Il suggère que la psychanalyse est une science immigrante, une science en déplacement, et du déplacement...

"On reconnaît à l’enfant sa bonté naturelle, son désir de s’oublier lui-même, de se désintéresser de lui-même, de s’absorber dans autre chose. Et l’extraordinaire vitalité de son désir : à la fois son...

Desistir ou não desistir? Eis a questão. A pergunta pode parecer simples, mas a resposta nunca é fácil. Abandonar vícios é uma coisa; desistir da própria vida é outra bem diferente. Enquanto abrir mão...

" La Meilleure des vies – éloge de la vie non vécue est un livre sur les expériences que nous n'avons jamais eues et dont nous sommes en deuil. Chaque chapitre décrit une expérience de la vie ordinaire...