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1st ed. “An original, accessible and exciting exploration of the complex and subtle relationship between faith, illusion and reality.” 

Michael Jacobs was for many years Director of the counselling and psychotherapy courses in the Department of Adult Education, University of Leicester. In developing those courses he published a number of key texts which are used in other training courses – notably The Presenting Past (Open University Press, 2022 (5th edition) and Psychodynamic Counselling in Action (Sage, 2024 6th edition). He has also written a number of other books (Sigmund Freud and D.W Winnicott in the Sage series) and edited three series for Open University Press – such as Core Concepts in Therapy. His most recent publication is Reflecting on Therapy (Karnac). Other books include Illusion – a Psychodynamic Interpretation of Thinking and Belief, Shakespeare on the Couch, and Our Desire of Unrest. Michael has written a professional memoir (Open University Press, 2018): Fifty Years of Counselling: My Presenting Past. He has been a visiting Professor at Bournemouth University and at the University of Leeds. He has a Ph.D on psychoanalytic interpretations of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Now in his eighties he is retired from practice and teaching but is always ready to correspond with any who wish to write to him. He can be accessed through the National Society for Counselling and Psychotherapy, of which he is a Senior Accredited Counsellor and Supervisor; and a Fellow of NCPS as well as BACP and BCPC.

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. 

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.