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The thinking person's shrink
From: The Independent - London
Date: 19940911
Author:GERALDINE BEDELL
ADAM PHILLIPS has been compared to Susan Sontag, Lionel Trilling - even, if tentatively, to Roland Barthes. And to Chekhov and Charles Lamb and William Empson - an impressive, not to say intimidating band of associates and antecedents for a 40-year-old child psychotherapist who has only just published his second volume of essays.
His first, On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored - subjects in which psychoanalysis has until now scarcely interested itself - was published last year to mostly rapturous reviews; his second, On Flirtation, comes out this month. Frank Kermode considers the former "not ...
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