On Getting Better - Adam Phillips

Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Essays Mental Health Philosophy Psychoanalysis Psychology

Written by Adam Phillips
Read by Sam Pamphilon
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 4hrs and 10mins
First published: January 2025

To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because of the sentences we have read.)

How can we talk differently about how we might want to change, knowing that all change precipitates us into an uncertain future?

In this companion book to On Wanting to Change, Adam Phillips explores how we might get better at talking about what it is to get better.