A short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention, from Britain's pre-eminent psychoanalyst.
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 Attention Seeking, In Writing and Unforbidden Pleasures. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
The best living essayist writing in English
The Martin Amis of British psychoanalysis . . . brilliantly
amusing and often highly unsettling * The Times *
One of those writers whom it is a pleasure simply to hear
think * Sunday Telegraph *
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the
one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *
Adam Phillips is that rarest of phenomena, a trained
clinician who is also a sublime writer
Playfully digressive style... He is the finest living decipherer
of affective life [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis * Daily
Telegraph *
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