Libros de Adam Phillips

Elogio De La Renuncia

• 208 páginas
• Hemos aprendido que renunciar es fracasar. Pero Adam Phillips sospecha lo contrario: que hay una tiranía del cumplimiento, una obsesión por terminar las cosas que nos impide ver lo que podríamos ganar abandonándolas. El problem...

Placeres Permitidos

• 138 páginas

Attention Seeking

The Cure For Psychoanalysis

• This book presents a day long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes two brilliant essays that..

Promises, Promises: Essays On Literature And Psychoanalysis

• As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a..

Selected Writing

• 416 páginas

The Life You Want

• 160 páginas
• With his characteristic curiosity, warmth and perceptiveness, Adam Phillips addresses one of the key perplexities of modern life, which is that we are all the products of the families or social groups we grow up in: they shape us selectively and guide...

On Giving Up

• 160 páginas
• Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable.

On Getting Better

• 157 páginas

On Wanting To Change

• 141 páginas
• We want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.

On Getting Better

• 176 páginas
• On Getting Better is a thoughtful and compact book about self-improvement from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness .

Something Like My Name

• A habitual drifter and a college basketball star tell concurrent stories of how they are lost, alternately destroyed and hopeful, as they try to figure out what to do with themselves, what’s the point of it all, and what if they never...

Animate To Harmony

• Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create...

Missing Out

• 224 páginas
• 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 into the gap between...

On Kissing, Tickling, And Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays On The Unexamined Life

• 160 páginas
• In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly..

On Balance

Intimacies (16pt Large Print Edition)

• Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central impo...

Intimacies

• 134 páginas
• Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central impo...

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Terrors And Experts

• 110 páginas
• Iris Murdoch once suggested that to understand any philosopher's work we must ask what he or she is frightened of. To understand any psychoanalyst's work--both as a clinician and as a writer--we should ask what he or she loves, because psychoanalysis...