'Are you a prisoner of yourself?'
Thursday 13 December 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet introduces a debate recorded in front of an audience in Liverpool as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking 07.
In an age when the political agenda is often pre-occupied with debates over civil liberties and the meaning of human rights, have we forgotten that the most powerful freedom we possess is in our heads? Why do so many people feel that the main obstacle to their personal freedom is, quite simply, their own outlook?
Psychoanalyst and writer Adam Philips and motivational speaker Jane Kenyon join the Rev Richard Coles, Chaplain to the Royal Academy of Music, to ask 'Are you a prisoner of yourself?'