Andrew Samuels

The Political Psyche

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Samuels shows how the inner journey of analysis and psychotherapy and the passionate political convictions of the outer world are linked.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9781138888463
• ISBN-10: 113888846X
• Artikelnr.: 42804082

Autorenporträt

Andrew Samuels is recognised internationally as a leading commentator from a psychotherapeutic perspective on political and social problems. His work on the father, sexuality, spirituality and ethics has also been widely appreciated. Over forty years, he has evolved a unique blend of post-Jungian, relational psychoanalytic and humanistic approaches to clinical work. A past chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, he was co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility and also of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex University and holds visiting chairs at New York, London, Roehampton and Macau universities. His books have been translated into 19 languages. For Routledge, he is the author of Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (1986), The Plural Psyche (1989), The Political Psyche (1993), Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling (edited with Del Loewenthal, 2014), and Passions, Persons, Psychotherapy, Politics (2014). www.andrewsamuels.com

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Classic Edition. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I -
The Political Psyche 1. The Mirror and the Hammer 2. Subjectivity and
Political Discourse: The contribution of the clinic 3. Depth Psychology and
Politics 4. The Lion and the Fox: Morality, Trickster and Political
Transformation 5. Against Nature. Part II: The Political Person 6. Fathers
7. Political Readings of Paternal Imagery 8. Reflecting on Men 9. The
Political Person Part III: The Political Therapist 10. Political Material
in the Clinical Setting: Replies to an international survey 11. Object
Relations, Group Process and Political Change 12. Jung, anti-Semitism and
the Nazis 13. Nations, Leaders and a Psychology of Difference 14. Ending
and Beginning. Notes. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.