In classic psychoanalytic style, Phillips strips our lives down to the fundamentals to illustrate the delicate balance between sanity and insanity. Sanity, he notes, "has never been a popular word, or ...

This post was updated March 2 at 8:32 p.m. Psychoanalytic thinker and author Adam Phillips presented ideas about kindness, mental health and psychoanalysis Thursday. Phillips, a former child ...

Adam Phillips, the psychoanalyst, says no and wants to show us why. His new book, The Life You Want, despite its title, is not a self-help guide in the vein of Richard Bandler’s Get the Life You Want ...