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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 but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable. There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a critical moment―an attempt to make a different future. In On Giving Up, the acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up and helps us to address the central question: What must we give up in order to feel more alive?

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Adam Phillips is one of the foremost psychoanalysts practicing in the world today, and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of many books, including On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored and On Balance. He is also coauthor, with the historian Barbara Taylor, of On Kindness. Liam Price grew up in the English countryside with a deep love for literature, especially talking books and radio plays. He studied English literature and history before spending a number of years working and traveling around the world. Liam then served with the military, where in a stroke of monumental luck, he would meet his future wife (pending!). She would lure him over to the United States and tempt him into the world of audiobook narration. His favorite books include Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, anything by Nick Hornby, and everything to do with history. With his worldly experience, a knack for accents, natural dry wit, and English decadence, Liam is fully equipped to bring your audiobook to life.

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