A thrilling and ambitious new novel, spanning decades and continents, from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Kills.
This book draws together radical critiques of therapy and shows how therapists have become too willing administrators of the mind, and how they then delight in the bureaucratic management of therapeutic practice.
States that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective and appropriate policy responses to the malaise are to be fashioned.