{"product_id":"on-wanting-to-change-paperback","title":"On Wanting to Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in a world in which we are invited to change--to become our best selves through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy. We change all the time--growing older and older--and how we think about change changes over time too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe want to think of our lives as progress myths--as narratives of positive personal growth--at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdam Phillips's sparkling book \u003ci\u003eOn Wanting to Change \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the stories we tell about change, and the changes we actually make--and the fact that they don't always go, or come, together.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e, formerly a principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practicing 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 \u003ci\u003eMissing Out\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUnforbidden Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e. A frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, he is the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356898869497,"sku":"9780374172046","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZGlDVFl1TDVIRnJZQUc4SjhBamhKZz09.webp?v=1769869187","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/on-wanting-to-change-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}