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Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.

From the London Review dated 6 March 2003

Bored with Sex?

“The big secret about sex isn’t quite that most people don’t like it, it’s that most people don’t like it because they are with people they aren’t really excited by or with people they are too excited by (which is why most relationships end in either boredom or pathological jealousy).” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Intimacies by Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips (2008)
  • Side Effects (2006)
  • The Penguin Freud Reader edited by Adam Phillips (2006)  Buy this book
  • Going Sane (2005)
  • Wild Analysis by Sigmund Freud, edited by Adam Phillips, translated by Alan Bance (2002)
  • Equals (2002)
  • Houdini's Box (2001)
  • Promises, Promises (2000)
  • Darwin's Worms (1999)
  • The Beast in the Nursery (1998)
  • Monogamy (1997)
  • Terrors and Experts (1996)
  • On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored (1994)
  • On Flirtation (1994)
  • Winnicott (1989)

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