What if you could peep into an analyst's exchanges with intriguing people such as Benjamin Franklin, King James, Lilith, Leonardo da Vinci, Brahms, Hemingway, Cleopatra and many others who made great impact on the world? The poet Keats so obviously needed sex therapy and was Napoleon truly a eunuch as Josephine declared?

Bernard Levinson, using modern techniques and great empathy, invites intriguing and memorable individuals to his psychiatric couch to discuss their lives and loves and sexual problems.

Honouring the framework and facts of their lives, Bernard conjures the joy, pain, humour, loneliness and uniqueness of heroes of our culture.