In a June 2004 column, Novartis Chairman and CEO Daniel Vasella disclosed that before he became an executive, he had been a physician and a psychoanalyst.

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Early on, after graduating from Harvard with plans to become a psychoanalyst, he detoured into research after becoming fascinated with new methods for probing the electrical activity of brain neurons.

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The preface to his answer is that he is a child of Europe, born in 1957 to a psychoanalyst mother of Polish extraction and a famous sociologist father from Romania, both Jewish.

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That is the premise for a new book by David Tuckett, a British psychoanalyst, who conducted a series of interviews with fund managers just as the crisis was breaking.

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Like Investigator Petrovich, Inspector Rheinhardt has a sidekick, a Jewish psychoanalyst, Dr Max Liebermann.

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"This generation is very focused and they will achieve their goals with single-minded purpose, " says a leading psychoanalyst.

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It is based on recent research into the psychology of flourishing (so called positive psychology), consumer behavior research, experiences and research about the diet industry and weight loss, my 25 years clinical experience as a psychologist and psychoanalyst, and well over a half-century of experience eating.

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Remedios Varo, a Spanish-born artist who fled Paris for Mexico during the Nazi occupation, painted "Woman Departing From the Psychoanalyst's Office" in 1960.

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