Side Effects - Hardcover

Phillips, Adam

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ISBN 10: 0241142113 ISBN 13: 9780241142110

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2006

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Psychoanalysis as a form of therapy works by attending to the patient's side effects, that is, 'what falls out of his pockets once he starts speaking'. Undergoing psychoanalytic treatment is in many ways like reading a powerful work of literature - a leap into the dark, an opportunity to think the strangeness of your own thoughts. It is impossible to know beforehand the effect it will have. All we can do, as the essays in this book suggest, is see where the side effects will lead us. And that is part of the excitement of being alive. As erudite, observant and eloquent as ever, Adam Phillips is the perfect guide for this fascinating journey into the links between psychoanalysis, literature and the living of our everyday lives.

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"These essays...are vintage Phillips: enlightening and intelligent; dynamic and delectably interdisciplinary."--Time Out

This collection proves [Phillips's] mastery of the literary essay.--The Times (London)

This collection proves [Phillips s] mastery of the literary essay.--The Times (London)"

These essays...are vintage Phillips: enlightening and intelligent; dynamic and delectably interdisciplinary. --Time Out"

About the Author:

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.

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