On Getting Better
by Adam Phillips
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Pub Date Jan 04 2022 | Archive Date May 25 2022
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Picador
Description
On Getting Better is a thoughtful and compact book about self-improvement from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness.
To 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.)
How 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 On Wanting to Change, Adam Phillips explores how we might get better at talking about what it is to get better.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781250838872 |
| PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 128 |
Featured Reviews
Reading T, Reviewer
Take your time when you read this short book. Because it's worth it. It's going to be thought provoking as well as calming.
With references and parts in exploring, the book tries to explain what we could think about first when we think about getting ourselves better.
I feel this book series will be a little difficult to get into for young readers as well as for the beginners. However, if the reader is familiar with the concepts of Sigmund Freud and some such personalities mentioned in the book I feel it would a much easier read.
Take your time. Take your time to stop in between the pages and sentences. Take your time to reason and discuss while reading the book. It will be worth it.
Thank you, Farrar Straus and Giroux, for the advance reader copy.
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