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Going Sane
  • Published: 27 April 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141916323
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Going Sane

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Adam Phillips is the Alain de Botton of psychoanalysis - here he explains what it means to be a sane person in an insane world.

Volumes have been dedicated to madness, but sanity is rarely mentioned. We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In Going Sane, psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history, philosophy, literature and his own experiences to address questions that we rarely ask about ourselves, taking us on an engrossing journey in which we learn many things - including some of what it takes to be happy in the modern world.
  • Published: 27 April 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141916323
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

About the author

Adam Phillips

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 The Life You Want, On Giving Up and On Getting Better. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
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Praise for Going Sane

The best living essayist writing in English

John Gray

Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored

Observer

He's brilliant

John Carey

Characteristically brilliant

Hanif Kureishi, Observer Books of the Year

Elegant and lucid... This erudite and absorbing book oozes intelligence and charm

Independent

Brave, idiosyncratic and refreshing... Innovative and eclectic... Profound... It is heartening to read anyone, let alone a psychoanalyst, who writes so well

The Times

Exceptional... Irresistable, both as a guide to living and an exploration of the links between behaviour and mortality

Times Educational Supplement