Adam Phillips is a British child psychotherapist and essayist. He is known for his books dealing with topics around psychoanalysis. Psychotherapy is a set of techniques believed to cure or to help solve behavioral and other psychological problems in humans. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods that work to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. ...
Works
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life (1993)
Terrors and Experts (1995)
On Flirtation: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Uncommitted Life (1995)
Monogamy (1997)
The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites (1998)
Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories (1999)
Promises, Promises (2000)
Houdini's Box: On the Arts of Escape (2001)
Equals: On Inhibition, Mockery, Hierarchy, and the Pleasures of Democracy (2002)
PhillipAdamsAO (born 1939) is an Australian broadcaster on the Radio National network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), filmmaker, author, archaeologist, controversialist, Humanist, social commentator and satirist.
Adams was born in Maryborough, Victoria, the only child of a Congregational Church minister.
Adams is married to Patrice Newell (http://www.virgo.com.au/), and has a 14-year-old daughter Aurora, as well as three older daughters with a previous wife - Saskia, Meaghan and Rebecca Adams.
Adams represented General Motors in its 1984 acquisition of Electronic Data Systems, and was the tax attorney on the team that designed and implemented the first "tracking stock." He has been actively involved in the evolution of "tracking stock" technology and has advised with respect to many of the tracking stocks issued by major corporations.
Adams was at the forefront of structuring complex leveraged buyout and leveraged recapitalization transactions, including the recapitalizations of Owens Corning and UAL Corporation.
Adams was resident in the firms Washington, D.C., office where he represented clients in disputes with the IRS, and before the Treasury Department and the Congressional tax-writing bodies, as well as continuing his corporate transaction practice.
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