Equals

by Adam Phillips

Book Overview

If the best thing we do is look after each other, then the worst thing we do is pretend to look after each other when in fact we are doing something else. Psychoanalysis teaches us the dangers of this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465056792
• ISBN13: 9780465056798
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Phillips best

Adam Phillips has excelled himself. This is a book that repays careful reading. What Phillips has to say - in his cool calm, and slyly humourous way - about how we construct relationships to others, and our relationship to ourself, (particularly about how we can learn to listen)is not only cogent and unique, but also stems from a deep compassion. Phillips 'literary' essays included in this volume could be a model for essayists everywhere, if any still exist. His writing on Primo Levi for example, shows tremendous insight.