Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465056781ISBN-10:465056784UPC:9780465056781Book Category:Psychology, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Movements, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:PsychoanalysisSize:8.08 x 5.05 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCTMJBS77Y
Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis
As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: a mastery of psychotherapy as both practitioner and theorist, and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings these two gifts to bear upon each other, speculating on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature and on the connections between them. In his quirky, epigrammatic...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465056781ISBN-10:465056784UPC:9780465056781Book Category:Psychology, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Movements, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:PsychoanalysisSize:8.08 x 5.05 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCTMJBS77Y
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.
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