From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.
We 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.
We 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.
So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they don't always go, or come, together . . .
This sparkling book is about that fact.
| ISBN: | 9780241291771 |
| Publication date: | 18th March 2021 |
| Author: | Adam Phillips |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Genres: |
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Positive psychology Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality Popular psychology |
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We 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.We 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.So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they don't always go, or come, together . . . This sparkling book is about that fact.
On Wanting to Change features in the following genres: Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Positive psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Popular psychology
Paperback. £8.99, down from the £9.99 cover price. In Stock.
On Wanting to Change was written by Adam Phillips and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
On Wanting to Change has 160 pages
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.