Imprint: Penguin
Published: 30/03/2006
ISBN: 9780141012490
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
Weight: 181g
RRP: £12.99
From Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of On Kindness and Missing Out, Adam Phillips explains what it means to be a sane person in an insane world.
Volumes have been dedicated to madness, but sanity is rarely mentioned. We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In Going Sane, psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history, philosophy, literature and his own experiences to address questions that we rarely ask about ourselves, taking us on an engrossing journey in which we learn many things - including some of what it takes to be happy in the modern world.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 30/03/2006
ISBN: 9780141012490
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
Weight: 181g
RRP: £12.99
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored
Elegant and lucid... This erudite and absorbing book oozes intelligence and charm
Brave, idiosyncratic and refreshing... Innovative and eclectic... Profound... It is heartening to read anyone, let alone a psychoanalyst, who writes so well
Exceptional... Irresistable, both as a guide to living and an exploration of the links between behaviour and mortality