The Cure for Psychoanalysis

Adam Phillips

$27.25

Publication Date: October 5th, 2021

Publisher:

Karnac Books

ISBN:

9781913494384

Pages:

228

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Description

In two brilliant essays, Adam Phillips reveals what is at the heart of psychoanalysis - how it can enable both analyst and patient to live more fully, more creatively. In addition to the essays are creative and openly expressed questions and commentaries, plus an interview, inspired by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. The book presents a day-long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes additional contributions from John Bliss, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Edward Corrigan, Holly Levenkron, Kathleen DelMar Miller, Thomas Rini, Ron Taffel, Betty P. Teng, Karen Weiser, and Melissa White Gomez.

About the Author

Adam is a practicing psychoanalyst, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Wanting to Change Attention Seeking and Unforbidden Pleasures.