Andrew Samuels

Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche (eBook, PDF)

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 eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040331422
• Artikelnr.: 73346887

Autorenporträt

Andrew Samuels has made notable contributions to psychotherapy, Jungian analysis and studies, and psychoanalysis for over 50 years. He has had the honour of receiving two Festschrifts at the ages of 60 and 70. 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 (PCSR), Psychotherapy and Counselling Union, Analysis and Activism, International Association for Jungian Studies, and the Confederation for Analytical Psychology. He was the elected chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy from 2009 to 2012 and has worked as the consultant for Routledge's Jung List since 1984. His many books have been translated into up to 21 languages. These include Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), The Father (1985), A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (1986), The Plural Psyche (1989), Psychopathology (1989) The Political Psyche (1993), Politics on the Couch (2001), Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics (2015), A New Therapy for Politics (2018). A selection of video lectures and 'rants' is available on www.andrewsamuels.com

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!