The Force of Fantasy: Its Roles, Its Benefits and What it Reveals About Our Lives

An eminent psychiatarist unravels the meaning and purpose of fantasies (which we all have, even if we don’t realize it) and shows how they are vital to our emotional and psychological wellbeing

• Do we mean it if we fantasize about killing our boss/husband/mother?
• Do the fantasies of a woman differ from those of a man?
• What are sexual fantasies really about?
• Do the fantasies we enact as a child prefigure the career we will adopt as an adult?
• Is it useful to dream about winning a million pounds?

Draws on fascinating case histories to explore all the different kinds of fantasies we have
– romantic fantasies
– dreams of fame
– fantasies about power
– sexual fantasies
– career fantasies
– heroic fantasies etc.
and shows how they influence our behaviour, reveal our secret hopes and fears and help us transform our lives if we’re not happy.