On Wanting to Change
by Adam Phillips
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Pub Date Jan 04 2022 | Archive Date May 25 2022
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Picador
Description
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.
Adam Phillips’s sparkling book On Wanting to Change explores the stories we tell about change, and the changes we actually make—and the fact that they don’t always go, or come, together.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780374172046 |
| PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 160 |
Featured Reviews
Reading T, Reviewer
Thank you, Picador and the author, for the advance reading copy.
This is my personal favourite from the new series that's coming out next year on various topics related to our mind and behaviour.
Much of the content is related to psychoanalysis and its related fields in relation to the title.
I would say the writing has long sentences and paragraphs so be mindful about these when you pick up the book.
Recommending for those who like reading about medical references in relation to human behavior and psychology.
Thank you, Picador and the author, for the advance reading copy.
Mandy H, Reviewer
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.
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