I enjoyed the short length of this book and found the prose style enjoyable, though I found the actual ideas and themes a little circular.

Short and to the point! A good primer on the concept of attention. Adam Phillips is a renowned psychoanalyst and it shows.

Thanks to Netgalley and FSG for the ebook. The author looks at the idea of attention from a dozen different angles and tries to break down why it is so important. I slim book brimming with ideas.

I find the author's writing on different topics quite insightful and thoughtful as well.

It's books like this that actually makes me think about topics which we generally do not discuss but are quite important for our social interaction as well as to understand ourselves.

Well researched and quite elaborate, I find this book quite interesting and easy to read.

I would recommend this book for people who are more interested in science, more specifically, the medical field as much references are made related to medical sciences.

Thank you, author and the publisher, for the advance reading copy.

This book takes an empathetic approach and gives bite size approaches and allows you to have kindness and patience with yourself when dealing with life. This is so necessary for everyone to read in life. Highly recommend. Especially loved the reflection to true life to humanize my feelings and relate. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

A very complicated book aimed solely at subject matter experts the book intends to appeal to - psychiatrists, psychologists and psychoanalysts. Employing the philosophy of giants in the field like Sigmund Freud, Adam Phillips tackles the complex attribute of seeking attention, the complicated relationship between attention and shame and the consequences of a vacancy of attention. A very very tough read if the reader happens to be a layman as yours truly!