On Giving Up by Adam Phillips Groundswell Speaker 2024 It takes us from scenes

It takes us from scenes of a teenage home-life coloured by tragedy and silence - where writing was as much a refuge as an assertion - to the excruciations of early public appearances

the list of suspects is depressingly long

Written by puzzle-masters Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres

and he wants nothing more than to spend his days watching her coolly slip sandwiches into bags

Obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and dreaming of a better life

On Giving Up by Adam Phillips Groundswell Speaker 2024 It takes us from scenesA wise, generous book' Washington Post From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not