The Life You Want
Author:   Adam Phillips
Publisher:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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9780374617974


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   31 March 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Adam Phillips
Publisher:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Imprint:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780374617974


ISBN 10:   037461797
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   31 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Advance Praise ""A sophisticated, mind-stretching argument for psychoanalysis as a way of understanding why we want a good life."" --Kirkus Reviews


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Adam Phillips, formerly a principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including Missing Out, Unforbidden Pleasures, In Writing, Attention Seeking, On Wanting to Change, On Getting Better, and On Giving Up. He is also the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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