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Attention Seeking by Adam Phillips
$21.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting- on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$45.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$36.95 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Jewish Lives
Fantastic Feats & Ridiculous Records by Adam Phillips
$7.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Suitable for teen readers, this book offers information, quotes from the record holders.
Going Sane by Adam Phillips
$35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
For the last 300 years we have had elaborate descriptions of madness, but no comparable descriptions of sanity. Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips looks at money, sex, childhood and other aspects of life, suggesting what a sane approach to these might be.
In Writing by Adam Phillips
$24.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an essential place, as both precursors and unofficial collaborators in the psychoanalytic project. But the same has never held true in reverse. What, Phillips wonders, at the start of this deeply engaging book ...Show more
In Writing by Adam Phillips
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an essential place, as both precursors and unofficial collaborators in the psychoanalytic project. But the same has never held true in reverse. What, Phillips wonders, at the start of this deeply engaging book ...Show more
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
$30.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam Phillips. We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt us. In Missing Out acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips delves ...Show more
On Getting Better by Adam Phillips
$21.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write th ...Show more
On Giving Up by Adam Phillips
$48.00 NZD
Category: No Category
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacr ...Show more
On Kindness by Adam Phillips & Barbara Taylor
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of Western thought. Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind's 'greatest delight' - and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers have echoed him. But today many people seem to find these pleasures literally incredible. Instead of embrac ...Show more
On Kindness by Adam Phillips
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are ...Show more