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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam PhillipsPublish date:3/31/2026Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374617974ISBN-10:037461797XUPC:9780374617974Book Category:Psychology, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Social Psychology, Psychotherapy, Personal GrowthBook Topic:ExistentialSize:8.25 x 5.38 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCAQTCK5CR

The Life You Want

Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, plays with ideas about the lives we want.

Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do--and fail to do--about actually getting them?

In The Life You Want, Adam Phillips uses psychoanalytic and literary approaches to show that we are obsessed by the idea of our lives being ones we want and enjoy rather than merely...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374617974ISBN-10:037461797XUPC:9780374617974Book Category:Psychology, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:Social Psychology, Psychotherapy, Personal GrowthBook Topic:ExistentialSize:8.25 x 5.38 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCAQTCK5CR
Adam Phillips, formerly a principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practicing 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 Missing Out, Unforbidden Pleasures, In Writing, Attention Seeking, On Wanting to Change, On Getting Better, and...
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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