"Phillips has made psychoanalytic thought livelier and more poetic than ever… One of [his] finest and most broadly appealing books." - New York Times "Phillips offers a detailed description of what sanity can mean today." - Los Angeles Times "Beautifully written…clever and funny, and properly profound…A lovely addition to Phillips' guides to living a happier life." - GQ "Phillip's arguments, both thought provoking and provocative, may affect future definitions of sanity and madness." - Publishers Weekly As surely as vanilla is a flavor, sanity is a property, and this book delineates its parameters with considerable erudition." - Andrew Solomon, author of THE NOONDAY DEMON, winner of the National Book Award "Bracing and provocative. Should be enough alone to make whole shelvesful of parenting guides self-destruct."-- - The Observer "Wise and subtle. Going Sane has some superbly suggestive things to say about childhood, depression, autism and schizophrenia."-- - Irish Times "Winningly articulate, enlightening but never patronising, [Adam Phillips] is a born writer…Going Sane is written with elegance and zest." - Arena "Challenging and inspiring …Going Sane is an indispensable guide to what wisdom means today." - John Gray, professor of political thought at the London School of Economics "Phillips is, as ever, an original and lucid spirit, a buzzing intellectual gadfly in the ointment of our easy answers." - Daphne Merkin, author of DREAMING OF HITLER: Passions and Provocations "Adam Phillips has written an extraordinarily generous and subtle unfussily important and emotionally brilliant." - Jorie Graham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dream of the Unified Field "Probing ... Challenges the reader to reconsider the taken-for-granted notion that sanity is just another word for mental health." - Kirkus Reviews "Well-argued and stunningly thought-provoking. Phillips has tackled a 'big idea' in a sophisticated yet spirited way." - Library Journal "Erudite and absorbing, oozes intelligence - and charm. [Phillips is] adept at making the complex comprehensible." - Independent

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