Adam Phillips, formerly a principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including Missing Out, Unforbidden Pleasures, In Writing, Attention Seeking, On Wanting to Change, On Getting Better, and On Giving Up. He is also the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Advance Praise

"A sophisticated, mind-stretching argument for psychoanalysis as a way of understanding why we want a good life."
--Kirkus Reviews

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub date: 2026-03-31

Length: 160 pages