272 Pages
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Routledge
Samuels proposes the case for pluralism in approaching key issues in depth psychology.
Preface 1 The plural psyche 2 Personality and the imaginal network 3 Parental images and the self-monitoring psyche 4 A relation called father 5 The father and his children 6 Beyond the feminine principle 7 Gender and the borderline 8 The image of the parents in bed: from primal scene to pluralism 9 Countertransference and the mundus imaginalis 10 The alchemical metaphor 11 Original morality in a depressed culture 12 The diversity of psychology and the psychology of diversity
Biography
Andrew Samuels is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, London and a Scientific Associate of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He is author of many books on depth psychology-the term he uses to indicate the combined field of psychoanalysis and analytic psychology.
`Very relevant to important depth psychological controversies and even to important general political arguments of the present day ... original and stimulating.' - British Journal of Psychiatry
