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Adam Phillips is a British child psychotherapist and essayist. He is known for his books dealing with topics around psychoanalysis. Phillips is also the General Editor of the new Penguin edition of the selected works of Sigmund Freud, and a contributor to the London Review of Books. Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954.
Works
- On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life (1993)
- Terrors and Experts (1995)
- On Flirtation: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Uncommitted Life (1995)
- Monogamy (1997)
- The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites (1998)
- Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories (1999)
- Promises, Promises (2000)
- Houdini's Box: On the Arts of Escape (2001)
- Equals: On Inhibition, Mockery, Hierarchy, and the Pleasures of Democracy (2002)
- Going Sane (2005)
- Side Effects (2006)
External links
- Review of The Beast in the Nursery
- Discussion with Adam Phillips about Monogamy
- Profile in The New Statesman
