description: Adam Phillips explores mankind's ongoing fascination with ideas of escape, looking at the great Harry Houdini and a case history of a little girl obsessed with hide and seek; at the notoriously reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and a man who believes it is his destiny to always be in flight, whether from women or his analyst. This is Adam Phillips' most captivating book to date.
language: English
title: Houdini's Box : On the Arts of Escape
titlecomplete: Houdini's Box : On the Arts of Escape
genres: Psychoanalysis, Biography, Essays, Psychology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 140
publisher: Faber & Faber