In classic psychoanalytic style, Phillips strips our lives down to the fundamentals to illustrate the delicate balance between sanity and insanity. Sanity, he notes, "has never been a popular word, or ...

The habit of mind that Adam Phillips targets with his new book will be “embarrassingly familiar” to many readers, said Sheila Heti in The New York Times. Many of us worry so much about the lives we ...

Adam Phillips is an unusual man. Until recently, he was principal child psychotherapist at the Charing Cross Hospital in London. This is his eighth book on psychoanalysis. Most of them are collections ...