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The Cure for Psychoanalysis, by Adam Phillips, Confer Books, London, 2021, 184 pp.

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Amid, B. The Cure for Psychoanalysis, by Adam Phillips, Confer Books, London, 2021, 184 pp.. Am J Psychoanal 82, 320–323 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-022-09344-z

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