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verfasst von Emerald, 18.07.2003, 21:06

-->London: Is Tony Blair mad? No, honestly, that’s a serious question. It’s being raised not by me but by Dr Raj Persaud, Britain’s most popular media psychiatrist who has just brought out his new book, From the Edge of the Couch (Bantam Press, £12.99), to follow his previous work, Staying Sane.

Although no day seems to pass when there isn’t an article by Raj in one of the papers or he isn’t on radio (he presents an excellent series called All in the Mind) or television, he is actually a hard-working psychiatrist. He takes great pride in dealing with National Health Service patients at the Maudsley Hospital in south London.

Raj, who was born in Britain of Caribbean Indian parents (his mother is from Trinidad, his father from Guyana), launched his book, appropriately enough at the home in Hampstead, north London, of Sigmund Freud.


Sigmund Freud and Raj Persaud: all in the mind
The house, where the father of psychiatry set up shop after escaping from Nazi Germany, is now a museum, with many photographs of Freud and even the very couch on which his patients would be encouraged to relax.

Raj, for he is now a top celebrity, once reclined on this couch to allow his portrait to be painted. Blessed with a sense of humour, Raj said in his invitation, “No GP (general practitioner) letter of referral needed.” But to me, he said, “In your case, perhaps one is.”

Raj shows his affection for me by putting his arm around my shoulder in public and telling anyone who will listen that he is my psychiatrist. It’s embarrassing because people don’t always disbelieve him.

However, the British prime minister’s need for Raj’s professional services might be greater. I arrived in time to hear Raj identify one of the symptoms of madness among great men.

“People who are most convinced they are right are the maddest of all,” his speech concluded. Was he talking of Blair (who is convinced he is right over Iraq), a girl from the Evening Standard gossip column wanted to know.

Raj replied he could not possibly say that but rewarded her with an eloquent look, which said in effect, “I cannot say that but you can.”

By the way, Raj appears to have psychoanalysed his son, Sachin, now two — (“no really, we didn’t name him after Sachin Tendulkar, Sachin is such a nice name”) all wrong. The child has developed a great attachment for a tennis racket.

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• So werden mißliebige, allzu systemkritische Personen entsorgt - André, 18.07.2003, 17:13
  • Re: Jetzt wird es langsam eng für Tony Bliar - CRASH_GURU, 18.07.2003, 17:54
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      • das ist ja auch der Grund warum er dauernd bei GW Bush weilt................... - Emerald, 18.07.2003, 20:58
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        • Dort hat er zumindest auch ein Alibi:-( (owT) - LenzHannover, 18.07.2003, 21:20