This Shelf Indulgence review takes a look at a book which is a pleasing mixture of philosophy, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the creative mind. Many of the history’s geniuses were solitary by nature or circumstance. In Solitude, eminent psychiatrist Dr Anthony Storr challenges the popular view that intimate personal relationships are the only source of health and happiness. With references to Freud, Jung, Bowlby and others, he examines the creative lives – and solitude – of...