![]() He has been described by The Times as "the Martin Amis of British psychoanalysis" for his "brilliantly amusing and often profoundly unsettling" work and by John Banville as "one of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time." Phillips is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His defining influences are literary – he was inspired to become a psychoanalyst after reading Carl Jung's autobiography and he has always believed psychoanalysis to be closer to poetry than medicine. He went on to study English at St John's College, Oxford, graduating with a third class degree. As a child, his first interest was the study of tropical birds and it was not until adolescence that he developed an interest in literature. He grew up as part of an extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins and describes his parents as "very consciously Jewish but not believing". Phillips was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1954, the child of second-generation Polish Jews. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. ![]() Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. Adam Phillips is a British psychotherapist and essayist.
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