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"Adam Phillips, ""the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness,"" brings us a dazzling roundup of provocative essays on psychoanalysis and literature.. As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings the two gifts to bear upon each other, reaching far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, novels, poetry, and history to speculate on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders."

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Brilliantly lucid; reading him on top form is like having bubbles of insight exploding inside one's head.

"""Adam Phillips is a clever, cultured, and eloquent man, a psychoanalyst and one-time child psychotherapist turned public guru, who obviously enjoys the process of writing and does it well... In this collection of essays and reviews he gives further proof of these talents, displaying his flirtatious intellect."" ""Brilliantly lucid; reading him on top form is like having bubbles of insight exploding inside one's head."""

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"Adam Phillips has been called ""the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness."" Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as Winnicott On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored Monogamy On Flirtation Terror and Experts Darwin's Worms Promises, Promises and Houdini's Box."

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