One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays

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A selection of his most popular essays from the author called 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer' by the New Yorker Throughout his brilliant career, Adam Phillips has lent a new and incisive dimension to the art of creative non-fiction, and in so doing revived the form for audiences of the new millennium. Collected here are nineteen pieces that have best defined his thinking - including 'On Tickling', 'On Being Bored' and 'Clutter- A Case History' - along with a selection of new writings and an introduction by Booker prize-winner John Banville. One Way and Another is an affirmation of Phillips's position as one of the most important, imaginative and accessible literary essayists today.

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising 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 most recently Attention Seeking, In Writing and Unforbidden Pleasures. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Phillips is one of the finest prose stylists at work in the language, an Emerson for our time Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer * "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 * Guardian * He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists * Observer * Phillips radiates infectious charm. The brew of gaiety, compassion, exuberance and idealism is heady and disarming * Sunday Times *