Jane G. Goldberg, "Wired for Why: How We Think, Feel, and Make Meaning" (2025)

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Adam Phillips, "The Life You Want" (FSG, 2026)

Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do - and fail to do - about actually getting them? In The Life You Want Adam Phillips uses psychoanalytic and literary approaches to show that we are obsessed by the idea of our lives being ones we want and enjoy rath ...  Show more

Gloria Sibson Ayob, "The Concept of Emotional Disorder" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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