Editions

One Way and Another

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241964101

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 287g

  • RRP: £9.99

One Way and Another

  • New and Selected Essays

A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer'

'Phillips's prose is poetic in the best sense: it is muscular, resonant, and thrums with a dark music that is all its own' John Banville

In the twenty essays gathered here, ranging across his entire oeuvre, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips offers a vivid introduction to his discipline as well as his own unique thinking. Investigating subjects as diverse as desire, family, happiness, tickling, forgetting and even boredom, Phillips proves himself to be not only one of our most engaging writers but also a fascinating and provocative guide to our obsessions as human beings.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241964101

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 287g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored

    Observer

  • "Phillipsian" would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find you were holding it by the tail

    Guardian

  • He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists

    Observer

  • Phillips radiates infectious charm. The brew of gaiety, compassion, exuberance and idealism is heady and disarming

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising 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 most recently Attention Seeking, In Writing and Unforbidden Pleasures. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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