Adam Phillips
1) On kindness
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it a pleasure we often deny ourselves? And why-despite our longing-are we often suspicious when we are on the receiving end of it?
In this brilliant book, the eminent psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the historian Barbara Taylor examine the pleasures and perils of kindness....
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Readers will be engrossed with this collection of some of the most enviable supercars on Earth, from yesterday's Ferrari Testarosa to today's Bugatti Veyron. Each auto profile sports a brief history, list of specifications, and colorful and kinetic image of the car in action. Readers will be engaged for hours checking out these machines of beauty"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the nature of sanity and madness argues for a new definition of sanity that acknowledges the irrational and chaotic elements in everyday life, presenting recommendations about how to approach life from a balanced perspective.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud-Freud up until the age of fifty-that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls "Britain's foremost psychoanalytical writer," emphasizes the largely and inevitably...
12) On giving up
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A new book from the acclaimed psychoanalytic writer Adam Phillips on giving up to feel more alive"--
13) The maestro
Publisher
Freestyle
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The film is a dramatic biopic about famed composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco." --