Adam Phillips (psychologist)

Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips in 2012
Born (1954-09-19) 19 September 1954 (age 70)
NationalityBritish
Partner(s)Judith Clark, formerly Jacqueline Rose
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsPsychoanalysis, Literary Criticism

Adam Phillips (19 September 1954[1]) is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist.

Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

Joan Acocella, writing in The New Yorker, described Phillips as "Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer",[2] an opinion echoed by historian Élisabeth Roudinesco in Le Monde.[3]

  1. ^ "Phillips, Adam", Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 9 July 2012
  2. ^ "The Real World of Adam Phillips". The New Yorker. 18 February 2013.
  3. ^ "La meilleure des vies". Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2013. Adam Phillips, surnommé le " psychothérapeute des mondes flottants ", est le psychanalyste le plus célèbre et le plus iconoclaste de Grande-Bretagne