A psychological discourse which looks at the theme of humiliation and its manifestations to explore the questions and anxieties of childhood. Included are case studies from Phillips' own work as a child psychiatrist alongside Henry James' theory of art and life and Wittgenstein on the usefulness of hints.

A meditation on the nature of human appetite explores the influence of the appetite on human development, its curtailment in adulthood, its control over the imagination, and its power to transform our experiences into knowledge and inspiration

Product Description: Two essential novels from one of the most imaginative writers of our time: The Sea, winner of the Man Booker prize, and The Book of Evidence, an unforgettable literary mystery short-listed for the Booker prize. The Book of Evidence is a brilliantly disturbing portrait of an improbable murderer...read more

Product Description: We are living in the Age of Interruption; modern technology is changing our forms of attention, everyday life is subject to more disruption than ever before. As the pattern of our lives changes so dramatically so too does our sense of continuity and tradition...read more

Product Description: Brackenwood is an animated web series created by Adam Phillips. This is a collection of his rough original character sketches and creature designs spanning a decade of Brackenwood series development. It includes many steps in the evolution of these characters from the earliest ideas to some current designs...read more

Offers an exploration of death and loss through an examination of some of Darwin's and Freud's most famous findings.

Offers an exploration of death and loss through an examination of some of Darwin's and Freud's most famous findings. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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 paradox--and, in doing so, gives us fair warning about the perils of all social endeavors. In one way, the talking cure can be seen as a kind of listening cure. And learning to listen and be listened to is a skill upon which democracy itself depends.Written in his beloved epigrammatic and aphoristic style, Equals extends Phillips's essayistic probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the usefulness of inhibitions and the paradox of permissive authority. He explores why citizens in a democracy are so eager to establish levels of hierarchy when the system is based on the assumption that every man is created equal. And he ponders the importance of mockery in group behavior and the psyche's struggle as a metaphor for political conflict.

Product Description: People are funny--and so are many animals when they're encouraged by their human keepers! Here's a tour of the weird and wacky side of life around the world, with surprises and laughs for older boys and girls. They'll read about people with unusual bodies, including the tallest and the shortest, as well as the man with the most tattoos, a woman with the longest fingernails, an 80-year-old body builder, and a studs-and-rings-decorated woman who calls herself The Human Pincushion...read more

Product Description: The authors give you all you need to know to create the most commonly requested and popular Flash visual effects and movies on the web with fast and fun examples.

A psychoanalytical exploration of the nature of sanity and madness argues for a new definition of sanity that acknowledges the pervasiveness of irrational and chaotic elements in everyday life, presenting reassuring recommendations about how to approach life from a balanced perspective. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A psychoanalytical exploration of the nature of sanity and madness argues for a new definition of sanity that acknowledges the pervasiveness of irrational and chaotic elements in everyday life, presenting reassuring recommendations about how to approach life from a balanced perspective. 40,000 first printing.

A psychotherapist and author of The Beast in the Nursery provides a thoughtful meditation on the theme of escape, the fantasy of being able to transform oneself and one's life into someone completely different in order to escape one's ordinary, everyday world. Reprint.

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