​Join the EXPeditions book club! Each month, we read a book written by one of the authors featured on the platform. Each session is moderated by the readers themselves. Our first book is Adam Phillips’ latest THE LIFE YOU WANT on FEBRUARY 24th 7 pm (UK) introduced by Adam Phillips and Lisa Appignanesi.

​Adam Phillips on EXPeditions

​“I was trained as a child psychotherapist and I worked in the NHS for 17 years. I am currently a psychoanalyst and a writer. I write one day a week and I tend to write about psychoanalytic topics. I don’t ever write about my patients, though, but mostly on topics like boredom, kissing, hatred, obstacles and a whole range of things that interest me on a personal level. These are essays in the literal sense, since they are experiments for pursuing certain kinds of ideas.”

​Adam has authored 3 EXPs

• ​ Reading Freud today and what keeps him returning to Freud.

• ​Helping and being helped and how it informs almost all our forms of relating to other people.

• ​On affection, friendship, love and hate and why a good life is essentially an affectionate life.

​About EXPeditions

​EXPeditions is the open-access digital platform created to bridge the gap between scholars and members of the public.

Our editorial team is dedicated to this purpose, producing high quality digital content designed to satisfy the curiosity of the widest possible audience.

While researchers push the boundaries of knowledge forward, we try to help them push back the borders of ignorance and indifference.