On Getting Better

To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because of the sentences we have read.)br>br>How can we talk differently about how we might want to change, knowing that all change precipitates us into an uncertain future?br>br>In this companion book to On Wanting to Change, Adam Phillips explores how we might get better at talking about what it is to get better.>

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Improvisatory and energetic, buoyed by thought-enacting questions and self-qualifications . . . His writing is as much literary-critical as psychoanalytic, as likely to invoke Shakespeare or Emerson as Freud or Lacan . . . What one goes to his writing for - and what it often delivers - are arresting, renewing paraphrases that divert you from your overfamiliar tracks New Statesman

Product details

• Authors: Adam Phillips, Phillips Adam
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780241541883
• ISBN: 978-0-241-54188-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Self-help & personal development, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis