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Interview

Prozac cogitation

Tim Lebon interviews Louis Marinoff, the foremost exponent of philosophical counselling.

If you saw such headlines as ‘The way forward is Plato, not Prozac’ and ‘I shrink therefore I am’ in the Times and Telegraph last autumn, you may have been left wanting to find out more about philosophical counselling. The man behind the headlines was Manhattan philosophical practitioner Louis Marinoff, associate professor of philosophy at the City College of New York. He has been compared by the media to Socrates and Freud, though he’d rather think of himself as a “next generation Woody Allen”. Last month he made a flying visit to London, giving a well-attended public lecture and a number of workshops. He also found time to talk to Philosophy Now.

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