{"product_id":"on-getting-better-9781250838872","title":"On Getting Better","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Getting Better\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful and compact book about self-improvement from Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of \u003ci\u003eMissing Out\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo talk about getting better--about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer--is to talk about pursuing the life we want, in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from what we have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because of the sentences we have read.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow can we talk differently about how we might want to change, knowing that all change precipitates us into an uncertain future? In this companion book to \u003ci\u003eOn Wanting to Change\u003c\/i\u003e, Adam Phillips explores how we might get better at talking about what it is to get better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650413629714,"sku":"9781250838872","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82f2bab0-66d5-4a30-914f-a698d21023dc.jpg?v=1733288213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-getting-better-9781250838872","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}