Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954. He is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary criticism, including Winnicott, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects, On Kindness, co-written with Barbara Taylor, On Balance, Missing Out, One Way and Another and Becoming Freud. Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books, the Observer and the New York Times, and he is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations. His new book, Unforbidden Pleasures, comes out in November 2015 and is published by Hamish Hamilton.