Adam Phillips
Psychoanalyst and writer,
I was trained as a child psychotherapist and I worked in the NHS for 17 years. I am currently a psychoanalyst and a writer. Since 2003 I have been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. I write one day a week and I tend to write about psychoanalytic topics. I don’t ever write about my patients, though, but mostly on topics like boredom, kissing, hatred, obstacles and a whole range of things that interest me on a personal level. These are essays in the literal sense, since they are experiments for pursuing certain kinds of ideas.
EXPs by Adam Phillips
What keeps me reading Freud is the effect of all the literature that I love and value, which is that every time I read it, it’s as though I’m reading something new.
Helping and being helped informs almost all our forms of relating to other people.
The reason affection is important is because a good life is an affectionate life, essentially.