Today, our personal and emotional lives have become the object and target of psychologists, therapists and other professionals. This book examines the birth of

Governing the Soul is now widely recognized as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the sel

But today normality itself is open to medical modification.

Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.