Ian Jack (editor): Shrinks

Granta Publications

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The latest edition of Granta continues the tradition of quality fiction and journalism.

The theme is analysis or therapy, though it isn't all about Freud.

Ian Parker writes about Stanley Milgram, the Yale professor who dreamed up the psychology experiment that paid volunteers to "electrocute" a stranger.

Famously, Milgram found that volunteers would obey commands that would have led to death if the apparatus was real.

Another gem is former politician Roy Hattersley's piece dissecting the Third Way as expounded by everyone from Hillary Clinton to Tony Blair.