I have never had a man in my office lie on the couch and say 'I am destroyed because I left my baby at daycare today.' But I hear that every week from women.

INTERVIEW || Family is a 'necessary evil', says Brazilian psychoanalyst Vera Iaconelli, who was recently in Portugal to present her book, 'Análise: notas do divã', in which she exposes some of the problems of her own family - which tormented and traumatised her, but also contributed to the woman she is today.