ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author examines the implications of the relationship between the famous and those who make them famous from a number of angles. He looks at what it is in the famous that predisposes them to seek or even reluctantly to accept, the position of fame for which we know them. The only significance of those who accord fame is that one needs others to identify those who become eminent. The author explores what it is in those who follow or applaud that may attract them to the elevation of the famous or the genius. He also examines the possibility of a dynamic between these first two areas of enquiry. The author evaluates what any of this enquiry might have to tell us about the practice of psychotherapy and counselling. In psychological studies, the idea of looking for individual traits has tended to be more attractive and relatively more accessible.
