Andrew Samuels

Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche

Therapy, Testament and Trouble in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

With passion and originality, Samuels presents powerful material on culture and politics (including critical takes on 'the Other' and on political violence), and a compassionate account of the role of an individual when it comes to progressive politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032985022
• ISBN-10: 103298502X
• Artikelnr.: 72003397

Autorenporträt

Andrew Samuels has made notable contributions to psychotherapy, Jungian analysis and studies, and psychoanalysis for over fifty years. He is a relational Jungian psychoanalyst, professor, activist and political consultant (including to Britain's National Health Service). He founded or co-founded many organisations within the 'psy' field, including Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility and Analysis and Activism. His books include Jung and the Post-Jungians and The Political Psyche.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Culture 1. Oh No! Not Another Chapter on 'the Other'
2. Global Politics, American Hegemony and Vulnerability: Why There Are No
Winners in the Battle Between Trickster Pedro Urdemales and the Gringos 3.
Age is Just a Number: the Delusion of Maturity and the Fiction of
Individuation 4. Politically Engaged Art as Inspiration in Clinic and in
Culture - Plus a Reflection on the Dangers of Such a Thing Part 2: Politics
5. The Rationality of Political Violence 6. The Role of the Individual in
Progressive Politics - Possibilities and Impossibilities of 'making a
Difference' 7. Taking the Green Agenda Out of the Margins - Psychological
Strategies Part 3: Therapy 8. Pluralism and Psychotherapy - What is a Good
Training? 9. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Therapy (but Were
Afraid to Ask: Social, Political , Economic and Clinical Fragments of a
Critical Psychotherapy) Part 4: Jungian 10. Political and Clinical
Developments in Analytical Psychology Since 1972: Subjectivity, Equality
and Diversity - Inside and Outside the Consulting Room 11. The Future of
Jungian Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats ('swot')
12. Jung and 'africans': a Critical and Contemporary Review of Some of the
Issues 13. Sinking Like a Stone: Activism, Analysis and the Role of the
Academy Part 5: Clinic 14. From Sexual Misconduct to Social Justice 15. The
'activist Client': Social Responsibility, the Political Self, and Clinical
Practice in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 16. The Transcendent Function
and Politics: No!