Michael Briant's slim volume is an entertaining and well-informed read. A longtime psychodynamic psychotherapist for Cambridge University's student counselling service and head of the University's post-graduate diploma in psychotherapy for over 15 years, Briant uses this book to examine what knowledge psychotherapists have that can be used to create a more ethical society. He weaves together insights from his consulting room with his fascination into how humans organize themselves into societies and the engaging result is a seven-chaptered meander (plus