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Adam Phillips
July 2019
Books interview
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips: ‘You have to let your child teach you’
The analyst and literary critic on why attention-seeking is a good thing
Published:
6 Jul 2019
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips: ‘You have to let your child teach you’
August 2018
Further reading
Salley Vickers picks the best books about family dynamics
Struggling to understand your relatives this bank holiday weekend? The novelist picks her favourite books, from Mansfield Park to Cold Comfort Farm
Published:
27 Aug 2018
Salley Vickers picks the best books about family dynamics
June 2017
Book of the day
In Writing by Adam Phillips review – the psychoanalyst as unreliable narrator
Adam Phillips’s diverse, probing essays on writers and writing are like ‘little gatherings of like minds’
Published:
5 Jun 2017
In Writing by Adam Phillips review – the psychoanalyst as unreliable narrator
October 2016
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography: October 2016
Original Observer photography: October 2016
Observer New Review Q&A
Adam Phillips: ‘Taste is problematic when it is a militant and aggressive narrowing of the mind’
Published:
9 Oct 2016
Adam Phillips: ‘Taste is problematic when it is a militant and aggressive narrowing of the mind’
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Further reading Salley Vickers picks the best books about family dynamics