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 The Life You Want, On Giving Up and On Getting Better. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. 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 The Life You Want, On Giving Up and On Getting Better. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

• On "wild" psychoanalysis; on the uses of dream interpretation in psychoanalysis; on the dynamics of transference; advice to doctors on psychoanalytic treatment; on initiating treatment; observations on love in transference; resistance to psychoanalysis; the question of lay analysis; postscript to "the question of lay analysis"; analysis terminable and interminable; constructions in analysis.

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