Going Sane

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In "Going Sane"! psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history! philosophy! literature and his own experiences to explain what it means to be a sane person in an insane world. Zusammenfassung We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? Answering this question, the author delves deep into history, philosophy, literature, and his own experiences to address questions that we rarely ask about ourselves. He takes us on a journey in which we learn many things, including some of what it takes to be happy in the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Phillips
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2006
• EAN: 9780141012490
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101249-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Guides > Health; humanistic psychology, Analytical and Jungian psychology