The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

On Balance

On Balance

by Adam Phillips (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2011

    $8.49

  • New

    Paperback 2011

    $15.85
Synopsis

Are we too obsessed with excess? What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour? And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be? In "On Balance", acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explores a variety of urgent concerns related to how we attempt to manage our conflicting desires, needs and motives. In essays on excess, childhood development, fairy tales and the pursuit of happiness, Phillips provides exhilarating arguments, witty wordplay and much intellectual and emotional food for thought on literature and life.

$8.49

Save:$3.91 (32%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 07 Jul 2011
ISBN 10: 0241143896
ISBN 13: 9780241143896

Media Reviews
A refreshing, invigorating experience...Adam Phillips is one of the richest and most rewarding essayists of our time. -- Los Angeles Times

Highly pragmatic...Phillips's authority as a writer comes in no small part from his own experience as a highly regarded therapist....Like a priest, he is concerned with damnation and salvation, under the secular names of sickness and cure. --Adam Kirsch, The Boston Globe

Transformative...Phillips can tease out contradictions with extraordinary delicacy....He shows that pleasure and desire are not simple; they can be feared...and used to hide things we should really see. -- The Guardian (London)

Gently provocative reading on themes of need and desire...Phillips's ideas are fresh and inventive, casting new light on counterintuitive topics from the psychological importance of punishment to the questionable pursuit of happiness. -- Financial Times

A set of beguiling essays...the author provides polished ponderables for all readers. -- Kirkus Reviews



Author Bio
Adam Phillips, formerly Principle 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 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.