This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self. Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been...

In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed...

10/15/94 - Grateful Dead<br /> Madison Square Garden<br /> New York City, NY<br /> <br /> Lineage:<br /> SBD -> Dat -> Sonic Solutions -> CD -> EAC -> FLAC<br /> (2 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)<br /> <br /> Converted By Charlie Miller<br />...

Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel...