Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist, literary critic, and essayist born in Cardiff, Wales in 1954. He trained as a child psychotherapist and worked for seventeen years in the National Health Service, including as principal at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He has published approximately twenty books on psychoanalysis, literature, and culture, and serves as general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud's works.