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Article: The Man Who Loves to Write About Psychiatry; FROM THE EDGE OF THE COUCH: Bizarre Psychiatric Cases and What They Teach Us About Ourselves by Raj Persaud (Bantam, u12.99).(Review)
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2003
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Byline: NICOLA SHULMAN
IF you passed this book at the airport bookshop for which it is destined, you might not know what it was. On its cover the white-suited author looks creamily down at us from one of those nebulous "sky" backgrounds beloved of school photographers. From his air of benevolent self-importance he might be a cable-station evangelist or a business guru, but he is, in fact, Dr Raj Persaud, media psychologist.
Who has not heard of Dr Raj Persaud? He is everywhere. Wherever two or three hundred words are gathered together in the name pf psychology, there he is at the head of them. No topic is too trivial for his attentions, and none so ...