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Going Sane by Phillips, Adam
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Located in: Barton, Vermont, United States
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Bottom front cover has a small stain, pages white except coffee stain on first few pages.”
- Personalize
- No
- Era
- 2000s
- Signed
- No
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780007155361
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0007155360
ISBN-13
9780007155361
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59039904
Product Key Features
Book Title
Going Sane
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy / General, General, Psychopathology / General, Mental Health, Psychopathology / Personality Disorders, Mood Disorders / General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Self-Help, Psychology
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
As surely as vanilla is a flavor, sanity is a property, and this book delineates its parameters with considerable erudition.", Phillips has made psychoanalytic thought livelier and more poetic than ever…One of [his] finest and most broadly appealing books., "Wise and subtle. Going Sane has some superbly suggestive things to say about childhood, depression, autism and schizophrenia."--, As surely as vanilla is a flavor, sanity is a property, and this book delineates its parameters with considerable erudition." (Andrew Solomon, author of THE NOONDAY DEMON, winner of the National Book Award), Adam Phillips has written an extraordinarily generous and subtle book...beautiful, unfussily important and emotionally brilliant., Erudite and absorbing, oozes intelligence - and charm. [Phillips is] adept at making the complex comprehensible., Winningly articulate, enlightening but never patronising, [Adam Phillips] is a born writer.Going Sane is written with elegance and zest., Phillips is, as ever, an original and lucid spirit, a buzzing intellectual gadfly in the ointment of our easy answers., Phillips has made psychoanalytic thought livelier and more poetic than ever... One of [his] finest and most broadly appealing books., "Phillips has made psychoanalytic thought livelier and more poetic than ever... One of [his] finest and most broadly appealing books." -- New York Times "Phillips offers a detailed description of what sanity can mean today." -- Los Angeles Times "Beautifully written...clever and funny, and properly profound...A lovely addition to Phillips' guides to living a happier life." -- GQ "Phillip's arguments, both thought provoking and provocative, may affect future definitions of sanity and madness." -- Publishers Weekly As surely as vanilla is a flavor, sanity is a property, and this book delineates its parameters with considerable erudition." -- Andrew Solomon, author of THE NOONDAY DEMON, winner of the National Book Award "Bracing and provocative. Should be enough alone to make whole shelvesful of parenting guides self-destruct."-- -- The Observer "Wise and subtle. Going Sane has some superbly suggestive things to say about childhood, depression, autism and schizophrenia."-- -- Irish Times "Winningly articulate, enlightening but never patronising, [Adam Phillips] is a born writer...Going Sane is written with elegance and zest." -- Arena "Challenging and inspiring ...Going Sane is an indispensable guide to what wisdom means today." -- John Gray, professor of political thought at the London School of Economics "Phillips is, as ever, an original and lucid spirit, a buzzing intellectual gadfly in the ointment of our easy answers." -- Daphne Merkin, author of DREAMING OF HITLER: Passions and Provocations "Adam Phillips has written an extraordinarily generous and subtle book...beautiful, unfussily important and emotionally brilliant." -- Jorie Graham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dream of the Unified Field "Probing ... Challenges the reader to reconsider the taken-for-granted notion that sanity is just another word for mental health." -- Kirkus Reviews "Well-argued and stunningly thought-provoking. Phillips has tackled a 'big idea' in a sophisticated yet spirited way." -- Library Journal "Erudite and absorbing, oozes intelligence - and charm. [Phillips is] adept at making the complex comprehensible." -- Independent, Probing ... Challenges the reader to reconsider the taken-for-granted notion that sanity is just another word for mental health., Beautifully written…clever and funny, and properly profound…A lovely addition to Phillips' guides to living a happier life., Winningly articulate, enlightening but never patronising, [Adam Phillips] is a born writer...Going Sane is written with elegance and zest., "Bracing and provocative. Should be enough alone to make whole shelvesful of parenting guides self-destruct."--, Phillip's arguments, both thought provoking and provocative, may affect future definitions of sanity and madness., Beautifully written...clever and funny, and properly profound...A lovely addition to Phillips' guides to living a happier life., Well-argued and stunningly thought-provoking. Phillips has tackled a 'big idea' in a sophisticated yet spirited way., Beautifully written.clever and funny, and properly profound.A lovely addition to Phillips' guides to living a happier life., Winningly articulate, enlightening but never patronising, [Adam Phillips] is a born writer…Going Sane is written with elegance and zest.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
155.2
Synopsis
Being sane has long been defined simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. While writings on madness fill entire libraries, until now no one has thought to engage exclusively with the idea of sanity. In a society governed by indulgence and excess, madness is the state of mind we identify with most keenly. Though ultimately destructive, it is often credited as the wellspring of genius, individuality, and self-expression. Sanity, on the other hand, confounds us. One of the world's most respected psychoanalysts and original thinkers, Adam Phillips redresses this historical imbalance. He strips our lives back to essentials, focusing on how we--as human beings, parents, lovers, as people to whom work matters--can make space for a sane and well-balanced attitude to living. In a world saturated by tales of dysfunction and suffering, he offers a way forward that is as down-to-earth and realistic as it is uplifting and hopeful.
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