This study challenges the widely-held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. In a series of biographical sketches, it demonstrates how many of the creative geniuses of our civilization have been solitary, by temperament or circumstance.

Reissued in a new format as a special 40th anniversary edition, Karen Horney's study offers insights into the neurotic processes of coping as a special form of human development and describes the forces that work for and against people's realization of their potential.

A discussion of ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and of the idea of expertise itself. The author challenges the conventional idea of the self as something to be known, and sets out to show how self-knowledge is the problem rather than the solution.

An examination of gurus, the cults they inspire and the power they exercise. It takes as examples some of those considered to be modern gurus such as David Koresh and James Jones, and establishes what each of them has in common. It then discusses what they share with other more accepted gurus.