In two brilliant essays, Adam Phillips reveals what is at the heart of psychoanalysis - how it can enable both analyst and patient to live more fully, more creatively. In addition to the essays are creative and openly expressed questions and commentaries, plus an interview, inspired by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. The book presents a day-long symposium with Adam Phillips and includes additional contributions from John Bliss, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Edward Corrigan, Holly Levenkron, Kathleen Del Mar Miller, Thomas Rini, Ron Taffel, Betty P. Teng, Karen Weiser, and Melissa White Gomez.