1st Edition

The Psychology of Space Exploration What Freud Might Have Said

By Richard Sherry Copyright 2019
76 Pages
by Routledge

76 Pages
by Routledge

76 Pages
by Routledge

This short book grapples with two vast questions: the nature of our minds, and our place in the wider universe. It considers how one mutually influences the development of the other. The changes and challenges that will accompany the first humans to leave Earth and travel to another planet, or even further, will not only impact our technical capabilities, but will also represent a watershed... Read more

I Introduction

II Introduction

III Freud’s impact on my view of human nature

IV Connecting the necessity of the outer world to our inner universe

V Understanding The Context of Outer Space and of the Inner Space of the Unconscious

VI Space Exploration in the tension between cooperation and sublimation—Finding Collective Points of Working through Cultural Anxieties

VII Case Example, Mission to Mars and Mission Critical Psychoanalytic Processes to be Realised

VIII Space Exploration to Space Travel, and the Future of Psychoanalytic insights into Human Consciousness—From Spectator to Astronaut

IX Radical Transformations in Concept and Development of Technology: Space as Applied Measure of Human Maturation

X Mutual Evolution of Concepts: New Paradigms for the Future of Human Development

XI Connecting up the Archaeology of the Time, Space and Psyche

XII Conclusion

Biography

Dr. Richard Sherry is the Founder and Clinical Director for Psychological Systems Ltd. He is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist (CPsychol, AFBPsS); a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (BPC); and an Executive Coach (Licensed with APECS). He has specialty training in Clinical Neuropsychology; Military Psychology; Extreme Environments; Ethics; and Complex Psychological Traumatology.