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On Balance

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241143896

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 234g

  • RRP: £12.99

On Balance

Are we too obsessed with excess?
What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour?
And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be?

In On Balance, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explores a variety of urgent concerns related to how we attempt to manage our conflicting desires, needs and motives.

In essays on excess, childhood development, fairy tales and the pursuit of happiness, Phillips provides exhilarating arguments, witty wordplay and much intellectual and emotional food for thought on literature and life.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241143896

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 234g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • Phillips is a wonderful writer, his prose limpid and exact, and this is a deep and stimulating book

    Sunday Times

  • Intriguing and radical questions about the vital information strong responses and desires provide, and how we might use this to identify what we want

    Guardian

  • His writing is a lively source of provocation, repetition, self-renewal.

    Scotsman

  • Phillips radiates infectious charm

    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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