On the Couch: Twenty Extraordinary Personalities, from Picasso to Putin

In this groundbreaking new book, psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson considers ten key principles of psychoanalysis and illuminates them through psychobiographies of twenty extraordinary people. From Pablo Picasso’s chaotic life, which illustrates Freud‘s concept of the unconscious, to Nelson Mandela’s inspired achievements, which exemplify Jung‘s idea of Individuation; from John Bowlby’s attachment theory as seen through the lives of Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka to Melanie Klein’s views on the cl