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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 On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.<b>The best living essayist</b> writing in English
<b>Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled.</b> But the one thing you will never be is bored
Observer
He's brilliant
Phillips radiates infectious charm
Sunday Times
Playfully digressive style... <b>He is the finest living decipherer of affective life</b> [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis
Daily Telegraph
'Phillipsian' would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find you were holding it by the tail.
The Guardian
<b>Phillips is a wonderful writer</b>, his prose limpid and exact
Sunday Times
His prose is always elegant... such lively intelligence wins over the reader and makes Phillips's work addictive
Praise for Adam Phillips
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Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored
Observer
Phillips radiates infectious charm
Sunday Times
His writing is a lively source of provocation, repetition, self-renewal
Scotsman