Adam phillips

In his analysands' chair, 2000. Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1954. He was educated at Oxford, where he read English. Later he trained as a child psychotherapist and would become the principal at Charing Cross Hospital, in London. He also worked for seventeen years in the Nat...

Britain’s foremost psychoanalytic writer argues that, instead of yearning for change, we should enjoy the lives we already have.

Reportage from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign; the dispossessed of Johannesburg; and stars of stage and screen – all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer this month

In part one of their conversation, Paul Holdengraber and renowned psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips discuss daily writing habits, Oscar Wilde, Jacques Lacan, and how our parents make us who we…

Adam Phillips on Why Psychoanalysis Is Like Literature and How Art Soothes the Soul Utdrag fra et intervju med den britiske psykoanalytikeren Adam Phillips i The Paris Review om psykoanalyse…

Last year, in a bid to encourage Londoners to spend more time reading, London based design agency Kent Lyons produced a great stencil campaign across the UK capital to announce the launch of Get London Reading. More pictures on Flickr.

Our history of giving up – that is to say, our attitude towards it, our obsession with it, our disavowal of its...