The British don’t do therapy, philosophical or any other kind, for the same reason they don’t buy self-help books. It’s seen as weakness. Tim tells me an apocryphal story. He went to his local library in search of an American self-help book called Changing for Good. The nearest he could find, though, was Changing for Dinner, a book about English etiquette. “That kind of sums it up right there,” says Tim, staring forlornly into his beer.
