Adam Phillips
Born in 1954
Psychology
Adam Phillips is a British psychotherapist and essayist born in 1954 to Polish Jewish parents.
He studied English at Oxford and was inspired to become a psychoanalyst after reading Jung's autobiography.
Phillips is known for his literary approach to psychoanalysis, believing it to be closer to poetry than medicine.
He serves as the general editor for Penguin Modern Classics' Freud translations and regularly contributes to the London Review of Books.
Praised for his prose style, Phillips has been compared to Martin Amis and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
His work is described as both amusing and unsettling, often exploring the intersection of psychoanalysis, literature, and philosophy.
