Adam Phillips

The Shrink as Reader, Playing With Persuasion

Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature , by Adam Phillips. Basic Books, 376 pages, $27.50. Adam Phillips is an

By Tanya Luhrmann

Things I Can’t Watch on Television

At a recent dinner party, we inevitably got around to the sex-roles conundrum of the hour: Hillary Clinton and Rick

By Molly Haskell

A Rah-Rah Freudian Slips: Talking Cure on Lumpy Couch

Cassandra’s Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis , by Joseph Schwartz. Viking, 339 pages, $28.95 One can imagine a popular history

By Wendy Lesser

Adam Phillips’ Prescription: Bring Up Brilliant Babies

By Rick Whitaker

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