On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored

Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

Adam Phillips

    Introduction

    1. On Tickling

    2. First Hates: Phobias in Theory

    3. On Risk and Solitude

    4. On Composure

    5. Worrying and Its Discontents

    6. Returning the Dream: In Memoriam Masud Khan

    7. On Being Bored

    8. Looking at Obstacles

    9. Plotting for Kisses

    10. Playing Mothers: Between Pedagogy and Transference

    11. Psychoanalysis and Idolatry

    Notes

    Credits

    Index

  • Cover: On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
  • A photo of the author

Adam Phillips is Principal Child Psychotherapist in the Wolverton Gardens Child and Family Consultation Centre, London.