This post was updated March 2 at 8:32 p.m. Psychoanalytic thinker and author Adam Phillips presented ideas about kindness, mental health and psychoanalysis Thursday. Phillips, a former child ...

(CNN) — Are you forcing yourself to continue learning a language? What about holding out for closure in a relationship that ended abruptly? Or continuing a friendship that leaves you feeling drained ...

“We give things up when we believe we can change; we give up when we believe we can’t,” observes psychoanalyst Phillips (On Wanting to Change) at the outset of this intermittently insightful analysis.

A Pensacola man is facing two counts of aggravated child abuse charges after he allegedly maliciously struck, threw, cut and strangled his two children. Adam Phillips was arrested March 11 after a ...