Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche

Therapy, Testament and Trouble in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis

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.

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

Initial chapters include his commentary on Edward Albee’s shocking play The Goat and a provocative and critical view on liberal idealisation of ‘the Other’. Then, there is more of Samuels’ celebrated work bringing therapy thinking to bear on politics, and as far as the practice and organisation of therapy is concerned, readers will find new work on how to organise a good training (you must use pluralism) and a robust account of what a critical psychotherapy might look like. A section on Jungian matters includes Samuels’ work on Jung and ‘Africans’, whose importance has long been recognised, and a scintillating ‘balance sheet’ for Jungian analysis, setting its strengths and weaknesses alongside each other. In a clinical section, Samuels shows us what he means by the dynamic idea of the ‘activist client’.

With each chapter being preceded by a special ‘retrospective introduction’, as well as including experiential exercises to ground the ideas, this unique collection of papers will be of interest to psychotherapists, Jungian analysts, psychoanalysts, and counsellors, as well as academics working in those fields.

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