1st Edition
Passions, Persons, Psychotherapy, Politics The selected works of Andrew Samuels
Introduction. The Mirror and the Hammer: The Politics of Resacralization. The Lion and the Fox: Morality, Trickster and Political Transformation. Original Morality in a Depressed Culture. Against Nature. A New Deal for Women and Men. The Good-Enough Father of Whatever Sex. Beyond the Feminine Principle. Countertransference and the Imaginal World. The Image of the Parents in Bed: From Primal Scene to Pluralism. Jung, Anti-Semitism and the Nazis. Nations, Leaders and a Psychology of Difference. Schools of Analytical Psychology. New Developments in the Post-Jungian Field.
Biography
Andrew Samuels has, for almost forty years, been evolving a unique clinical blend of post-Jungian, relational psychoanalytic and humanistic approaches to therapy work. He is recognised internationally as one of the leading commentators from a psychotherapeutic perspective on political and social problems. His work on the father, sexuality, spirituality and countertransference has also been widely appreciated. He is a past chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, a co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility and of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex University and holds visiting chairs at New York, London, Macau and Roehampton Universities. Andrew's many books have been translated into 19 languages, including the groundbreaking Jung and the Post-Jungians, the indispensable Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis, his prescient account of pluralism in The Plural Psyche and his works on politics and therapy thinking - The Political Psyche and Politics on the Couch. www.andrewsamuels.com
'I appreciate the breadth and depth of source material the author uses to draw out his ideas, but it is a style of writing that I will never find easy to digest. Nevertheless, as a therapist, I do find satisfaction and challenge in considering current significant and complex social and political issues from a psychotherapeutic perspective and in that endeavour Samuels has shown himself to be writer of credibility, rigour and insight.'- Steve Page, Therapy Today, July 2015
