On Flirtation

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the pleasures of uncertainty.

About the author

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.

Summary

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the pleasures of uncertainty.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Phillips, Phillips Adam
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.1995
• EAN: 9780571174904
• ISBN: 978-0-571-17490-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 190 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 205 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Health psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychology: sexual behaviour, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis