On Getting Better

by Adam Phillips

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 what we have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because of the sentences we have read.)

How can we talk differently about how we might want to change, knowing that all change precipitates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250838878
• ISBN13: 9781250838872
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.4"