Going Sane

“Phillips has made psychoanalytic thought livelier and more poetic than ever… One of [his] finest and most broadly appealing books.” — New York Times
“Phillips offers a detailed description of what sanity can mean today.” — Los Angeles Times
“Beautifully written…clever and funny, and properly profound…A lovely addition to Phillips’ guides to living a happier life.” — GQ
“Phillip’s arguments, both thought provoking and provocative, may affect future definitions of sanity and madness.” — Publishers Weekly
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
“Bracing and provocative. Should be enough alone to make whole shelvesful of parenting guides self-destruct.”-— — The Observer
“Wise and subtle. Going Sane has some superbly suggestive things to say about childhood, depression, autism and schizophrenia.”-— — Irish 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
“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
“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
“Probing… Challenges the reader to reconsider the taken-for-granted notion that sanity is just another word for mental health.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Well-argued and stunningly thought-provoking. Phillips has tackled a ‘big idea’ in a sophisticated yet spirited way.” — Library Journal
“Erudite and absorbing, oozes intelligence — and charm. [Phillips is] adept at making the complex comprehensible.” — Independent