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Informationen zum Autor Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954. He is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary criticism, including Winnicott , On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored , Going Sane , Side Effects , On Kindness , co-written with Barbara Taylor, On Balance , Missing Out, One Way and Another and Becoming Freud . Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books , the Observer and the New York Times , and he is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations. His most recent book is Unforbidden Pleasures . Klappentext A discussion of ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and of the idea of expertise itself. The author challenges the conventional idea of the "self" as something to be known, and sets out to show how self-knowledge is the problem rather than the solution. Zusammenfassung A discussion of ways in which we may be terrorized by experts! and of the idea of expertise itself. The author challenges the conventional idea of the "self" as something to be known! and sets out to show how self-knowledge is the problem rather than the solution.
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Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954. He is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary criticism, including
Winnicott,
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored,
Going Sane,
Side Effects,
On Kindness, co-written with Barbara Taylor,
On Balance,
Missing Out, One Way and Another and
Becoming Freud.
Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He writes regularly for the
London Review of Books, the
Observer and the
New York Times, and he is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations. His most recent book is
Unforbidden Pleasures.
