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The Book Club: Adam Phillips

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Addiction as a Flight from Pleasure

They discuss addiction as a flight from pleasure and explore its paradoxes and contortions. They delve into the fundamental problems that arise from dependence on caretakers and how it shapes one's relationship with appetite.

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