1st Edition
Psychoanalytic Insights into Fundamentalism and Conviction The Certainty Principle
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1 Certainty: Who needs it?
Chapter 2. Certainty in everyday life
Chapter 3. Certainty in politics
Chapter 4. Certainty in religion
Chapter 5. Certainty in theory
Chapter 6. Certainty in depression
Chapter 7. Certainty on the autistic spectrum
Chapter 8. Certainty and doubt in balance
Index
Biography
Lesley Murdin is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Cambridge, UK, and was formerly the National Director for WPF Therapy in London. She has worked in the UK Council for Psychotherapy and the British Psychoanalytic Council to develop professional standards, and is the author of several previous books, including Managing Difficult Endings in Psychotherapy, Setting Out: The Importance of the Beginning in Psychotherapy and Counselling and How Money Talks (all Routledge).
'Murdin has written a passionate, lucid and well-informed plea for pluralism in the mind, in society, and in the practice of psychotherapy and counselling. She lays out for us the often irresistible seductions of fundamentalist certitude – and what can go wrong when people lose their sense of doubt and scepticism. It is significant that a senior therapist seeks to re-establish the credentials of liberal humanism and her book will be useful both in terms of clinical practice and important debates taking place in the field.'
Andrew Samuels, author of The Plural Psyche and The Political Psyche
