"Giving up certain things may be good for us, and yet the idea of someone just giving up is never appealing," psychoanalyst Adam Phillips writes in a new book. "On Giving Up" explores what it means to ...

This post was updated March 2 at 8:32 p.m. Psychoanalytic thinker and author Adam Phillips presented ideas about kindness, mental health and psychoanalysis Thursday. Phillips, a former child ...

(CNN) — Are you forcing yourself to continue learning a language? What about holding out for closure in a relationship that ended abruptly? Or continuing a friendship that leaves you feeling drained ...

What is it, exactly, that makes reading Adam Phillips such a refreshing, rewarding and invigorating experience? A psychoanalyst who splits his time between his private practice and his writing, ...

Renowned psychoanalyst Phillips (One Way and Another) conjures up a vibrant portrait of Sigmund Freud, examining psychiatry's most famous figure as it contends with the difficulties of placing his ...