Missing Out is a study on reality and opportunities by Adam Phillips, Britain's leading psychoanalyst. We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. However, the life we did not live - the person we failed to become - is what may preoccupy and haunt us. In Missing Out, the distinguished psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explores the gap between what we are and what we are not, to discover whether not getting what we want might be the unlikely key to the life worth living. With his characteristic blend of open-mindedness and subversive argumentation, drawing mainly from the worlds of literature and psychoanalysis, Phillips will delight both old and new readers in this much-anticipated book. Pages: 224, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm