Four programs describing the psycho/social issues affecting 20th century consumerism against the backdrop of the development of Freudian psychology.

Originally produced as episodes of the BBC television program The century of the self in 2002.

Part one: Happiness machines (59 min.) -- Part two: The engineering of consent (59 min.) -- Part three: There is a policeman inside all our heads he must be destroyed (59 min.) -- Part four: Eight people sipping wine in Kettering (59 min.) .