On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life by Adam Phillips
In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own distinctive version of psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural conversation. The essays combine literary and philosophical commentary with vivid clinical vignettes in a essentially puralistic approach to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.