On Getting Better
Book Details
- Publisher : Penguin
- Published : November 2021
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 176
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 96231
- ISBN 13 : 9780241541883
- ISBN 10 : 0241541883
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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 or come out of 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 us into an uncertain future?
In this companion book to On Wanting to Change, Adam Phillips explores how we might get better at talking about what it is to get better.
About the Author(s)
Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English Department at the University of York. He is the author of several well-known volumes, all widely acclaimed, including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects and recently On Kindness, co-written with historian Barbara Taylor, On Balance, Missing Out and One Way and Another.
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