Missing Out

The best living essayist writing in EnglishReading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *He’s brilliantPhillips radiates infectious charm * Sunday Times *Playfully digressive style… He is the finest living decipherer of affective life [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis * Daily Telegraph *‘Phillipsian’ would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find you were holding it by the tail. * The Guardian *Phillips is a wonderful writer, his prose limpid and exact * Sunday Times *His prose is always elegant… such lively intelligence wins over the reader and makes Phillips’s work addictivePraise for Adam Phillips * – *Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *

Adam Phillips is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary criticism, including Winnicott, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects, On Kindness, co-written with Barbara Taylor, On Balance, Missing Out, One Way and Another, Becoming Freud and Unforbidden Pleasures.

Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books, the Observer and the New York Times, and he is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations. He recently curated an exhibition, The Vulgar- Fashion Redefined, at the Barbican, London. His forthcoming book, In Writing, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in summer 2017.