Table of Contents

Part One -Your Consulting Room

4

Foreword - Hilary Mantel

5

Chapter 1

The Statue and the Bust

10

Chapter 2

The Ides of March

31

Chapter 3

The Kingfisher and the Golden Flower

38

Chapter 4

When Death Speaks

47

Chapter 5

Ordinary jocks become gods: the erotic transference

52

Part two - My Consulting Room

67

Chapter 6

The Scapegoat

68

Chapter 7 (I)

'Must I hold a candle to my shames?'

80

Chapter 7 (II)

By John Clarke a former patient

88

Chapter 8

Miss Suicide Shops at Tesco and Finds a Phoenix

99

Chapter 9

'As wanton flies are we to the gods'

118

Chapter 10

Facing the Self: 'Is man no more than this?'

128