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Publications by Adam PhillipsSome of this author’s publications are available from Karnac Books. Darwins Worms (1999)
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'Going Sane' explores a curious and telling contradiction that goes to the heart of the ways in which we think and talk about ourselves and others: the fact that we are better able to address the subject of madness than that of sanity.
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Darwin and Freud, it seems, took God out of the big picture and left us in a world determined by nature and overshadowed by mortality. In this text the author considers how these giants of science felt about death, and develops a new understanding of ageing, loss - and the art of transience. 
We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? In 'Going Sane', psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips delves deep into history, philosophy, literature, and his own experiences to address questions that we rarely ask about ourselves, taking us on an engrossing journey in which we learn many things, including some of what it takes to be happy in the modern world.
Does psychoanalysis teach us that freedom and equality are impossible for human beings? With all his customary grace and deftness, the suthor explores this question and many others in a liberating new collection of essays. He demonstrates how psychoanalysis - as a treatment and an experience and a way of reading - can like democracy, allow people to speak and be heard.