Missing Out, Paperback/Adam Phillips

A new book to savour from psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, who is also regarded as one of our foremost prose stylists. With his trademark combination of open-minded enquiry and exhilarating argument, he draws on the twin worlds of literature and psychoanalysis in a much-anticipated new book. 'Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored' }Observer{