On Balance

ISBN-13: 9780241143896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str.

Adam Phillips

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When might we know that enough is enough? Does the road of excess ever lead to the palace of wisdom? And should we be happy, or is there something better we can be? In 'On Balance', psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns centred around the idea of balance.

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O autorze

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal 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 On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, 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.