Going Sane Maps of Happiness

Name: Going Sane Maps of Happiness
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ISBN: 9780007155392

ISBN-10: 0007155395

ISBN-13: 9780007155392

Edition: 2005

Authors: Adam Phillips

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Writings on madness fill entire libraries, but until now nobody has thought to engage exclusively with the idea of sanity; we define it simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. But what is sanity? How broad, how eccentric is its range of behavior? And how do we go about crafting a creative and fluid definition of a sane existence, one we can guide ourselves by? Madness is always present in our lives -- in the chaos of our experience as babies, the rebellion of our adolescence, the irrational nature of our sexual appetites. In a society governed by indulgence and excess, madness is the state of mind we identify with most keenly -- while it is ultimately…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/4/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Adam Phillips is the author of six previous books, including "The Beast in the Nursery" & "Monogamy" (both available form Vintage). Formerly the principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, he lives in England.



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