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Psychotherapist Adam Phillips - What We Must Give Up to Feel More Alive

Both a renowned psychotherapist and the 'best living essayist writing in English' (John Gray), Adam Phillips joins us to reflect upon what we must give up in order 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 actively  undesirable. There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which.
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