Going Sane

Erudite and absorbing, oozes intelligence - and charm. [Phillips is] adept at making the complex comprehensible. --Independent Wise and subtle. Going Sane has some superbly suggestive things to say about childhood, depression, autism and schizophrenia. ----Irish Times Well-argued and stunningly thought-provoking. Phillips has tackled a 'big idea' in a sophisticated yet spirited way. --Library Journal Phillip's arguments, both thought provoking and provocative, may affect future definitions of sanity and madness. --Publishers Weekly Bracing and provocative. Should be enough alone to make whole shelvesful of parenting guides self-destruct. ----The Observer Phillips offers a detailed description of what sanity can mean today. --Los Angeles Times Winningly articulate, enlightening but never patronising, [Adam Phillips] is a born writer...Going Sane is written with elegance and zest. --Arena Challenging and inspiring ...Going Sane is an indispensable guide to what wisdom means today. --John Gray, professor of political thought at the London School of Economics Probing ... Challenges the reader to reconsider the taken-for-granted notion that sanity is just another word for mental health. --Kirkus Reviews Phillips is, as ever, an original and lucid spirit, a buzzing intellectual gadfly in the ointment of our easy answers. --Daphne Merkin, author of DREAMING OF HITLER: Passions and Provocations Beautifully written...clever and funny, and properly profound...A lovely addition to Phillips' guides to living a happier life. --GQ Adam Phillips has written an extraordinarily generous and subtle book...beautiful, unfussily important and emotionally brilliant. --Jorie Graham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dream of the Unified Field As surely as vanilla is a flavor, sanity is a property, and this book delineates its parameters with considerable erudition. --Andrew Solomon, author of THE NOONDAY DEMON, winner of the National Book Award Phillips has made psychoanalytic thought livelier and more poetic than ever... One of [his] finest and most broadly appealing books. --New York Times