Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis, Paperback/Adam Phillips

Descriere & specificații

As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings the two gifts to bear upon each other, reaching far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, novels, poetry, and history to speculate on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders. About the Author: Adam Phillips has been called "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as Winnicott; On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Monogamy; On Flirtation; Terror and Experts; Darwin's Worms; Promises, Promises; and Houdini's Box .

Produse similare

Basic BooksThe Meaning of Science: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Hardcover/Tim Lewens

273,99 lei

Basic BooksSpecial Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum, Paperback/Leonard Susskind

122,99 lei

Basic BooksLost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, Hardcover/Serhii Plokhy

240,99 lei

Basic BooksHealthy Work: Stress Productivity and the Reconstruction of Working Life, Paperback/Robert A. Karasek

233,99 lei

Basic BooksAnd the World Closed Its Doors: The Story of One Family Abandoned to the Holocaust, Paperback/David Clay Large

130,99 lei

Basic BooksWater: A Natural History, Paperback/Alice Outwater

95,99 lei

Basic BooksBleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--And a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets, Hardcover/Thomas Abt

165,99 lei

Basic BooksTalking Pictures: How to Watch Movies, Paperback/Ann Hornaday

172,99 lei

Basic BooksNo Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I/Wendy Moore

105,99 lei

Basic BooksThe Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change, Paperback/Diana Fosha

508,99 lei

Basic BooksThe Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer, Hardcover/Laurent Dubois

172,99 lei

Basic BooksPricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation: A Story of Genius and Discovery, Hardcover/George G. Szpiro

321,99 lei