The best living essayist writing in English
He's brilliant
Phillips radiates infectious charm * Sunday Times *
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *
He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists

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 On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.