Terrors and Experts (Paperback)

Paperback. 'It is rare to find a practising psychoanalyst who is also ready to challenge, with great subtlety and no axe to grind, certain aspects of analytical orthodoxy . . . Phillips is one of the most intelligent and humane of psychoanalytic writers, and Terrors and Experts contains a great number of thought-provoking and sometimes brilliant ideas.' Alain de Botton, Sunday Telegraph'Phillips boldly goes where few analysts have gone before, delighting in the riddles of the psyche and dreaming of an analytic set-up which would ditch dubious expertise and invite a camaraderie based on sharing terrors.The brew of gaiety, compassion, exuberance and idealism is heady and disarming.' Roy Porter, Sunday Times A discussion of ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and of the idea of expertise itself. The author challenges the conventional idea of the "self" as something to be known, and sets out to show how self-knowledge is the problem rather than the solution. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…