Off the King's Road is a gem.
It is the story of the author's divorce from an unfaithful Hollywood producer while they lived in London with their three young children. This event is presaged by an early attempt by Marlon Brando to seduce the author in front of her all-too-accepting husband. But out of the pain of this moment, Raphael finds the wisdom and strength to make a life for herself as both a new writer and a new woman.
The book is filled with quirky people and off-beat incidents, but its remarkable power lies with Raphael's writing. The book is written with wit, compassion, frankness, and laugh-out-loud humor, a unique style that draws and keeps the reader so enthralled that he or she--the book has great appeal for both sexes--must find out what happens next--where the next all-too-human vulnerablity will be empathically exposed in either the author or her many suitors.
This is, I tell you, one great read!

While written for mental health professionals, this book is so ground-breaking, I recommend it for the general reader as well. The book offers a new approach to the human mind and psychoanalysis that is far more convincing and relevant than existing psychoanalytic ideas. It explodes myth after myth and brings a refreshing focus on the effects of reality--of actual traumas--on emotional life. It also confronts us with an essential but neglected truth: Death and death anxieties--it identifies three forms--are the root causes of and drive both human creativity and human emotional ills. The book, which is Langs' 44th, hits home in many ways and is a revelation when it comes to undertstadning our personal woes as well as any kind of psychotherapy you may be or may have experienced--there are no white-washes here. Life is tough, this book hits hard, but it offers many new insights and resources with which to deal with those tough moments. If you want something truly original that tells you a lot about what you don't know about yourself, this is the book for you. Where else can you find a chapter entitled: 'Love is the Puppet, Death the Puppeteer'?