Going Sane

Synopsis

“Phillips has made psychoanalytic thought livelier and more poetic than ever… One of [his] finest and most broadly appealing books.” — New York Times“Phillips offers a detailed description of what sanity can mean today.” — Los Angeles Times“Beautifully written…clever and funny, and properly profound…A lovely addition to Phillips’ guides to living a happier life.” — GQ“Phillip’s arguments, both thought provoking and provocative, may affect future definitions of sanity and madness.” — Publishers WeeklyAs surely as vanilla is a flavor, sanity is a property, and this book delineates its parameters with considerable erudition.” — Andrew Solomon, author of THE NOONDAY DEMON, winner of the National Book Award“Bracing and provocative. Should be enough alone to make whole shelvesful of parenting guides self-destruct.”-- — The Observer“Wise and subtle. Going Sane has some superbly suggestive things to say about childhood, depression, autism and schizophrenia.”-- — Irish Times“Winningly articulate, enlightening but never patronising, [Adam Phillips] is a born writer…Going Sane is written with elegance and zest.” — Arena“Challenging and inspiring …Going Sane is an indispensable guide to what wisdom means today.” — John Gray, professor of political thought at the London School of Economics“Phillips is, as ever, an original and lucid spirit, a buzzing intellectual gadfly in the ointment of our easy answers.” — Daphne Merkin, author of DREAMING OF HITLER: Passions and Provocations“Adam Phillips has written an extraordinarily generous and subtle book...beautiful, unfussily important and emotionally brilliant.” — Jorie Graham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dream of the Unified Field“Probing ... Challenges the reader to reconsider the taken-for-granted notion that sanity is just another word for mental health.” — Kirkus Reviews“Well-argued and stunningly thought-provoking. Phillips has tackled a ‘big idea’ in a sophisticated yet spirited way.” — Library Journal“Erudite and absorbing, oozes intelligence - and charm. [Phillips is] adept at making the complex comprehensible.” — Independent

Copyright:

2005

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

224 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780061873645

Related ISBNs:

9780007155361

Publisher:

HarperCollins

Date of Addition:

01/25/24

Copyrighted By:

Adam Phillips

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Psychology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.