The author is committed to psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural conversation, and this unique collection of essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects combines literary and philosophical commentary with vivid clinical vignettes.'Like Chekhov, Phillips writes as well as he doctors, and his fascination with the subtleties of human behaviour makes him a good storyteller.He has a welcome openness to the essential strangeness of every person; this alone is reason enough to read him.' Jane Mendelsohn, Guardian
- ISBN10 0571170226
- ISBN13 9780571170227
- Publish Date 7 March 1994 (first published 8 March 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English