Do you think of Picasso as a lecherous old goat whose behaviour towards women was shameful? Of course, it may well send you back to the paintings wishing you didn’t know so much. Yet Jamieson’s method satisfies the avid curiosity about personalities that is the spirit of the age. There are many others too, including the inspiring Viktor Frankl, who survived a number of concentration camps, and Carl Jung’s wife, Emma. On The Couch is available nowThat helps explain why, discussing Mandela and Merkel, he makes statements of astonishing naivety about their respective political legacies.
Source: Daily Mail March 01, 2026 20:46 UTC