There’s not much of a warm-up to this harrowing tale of a three-person family cult. The scene is set in 1936 with Louis Didier, a self-made wealthy business man, taking…

I’ve only just discovered David Schnarch’s thinking, and I’m really glad to have done. He turns some well-received, and indeed practised, ideas in couples and sex therapy around and upside-down…

I’d recommended Phillipa Perry’s Couch Fiction as an accessible introduction to the little-understood process of psychotherapy. But also, The Gossamer Thread, the memoir of John Marzillier. Setting off his professional…