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. There are provocative accounts of what a critical psychotherapy might look like plus a section on Jung and ‘race’. In a clinical chapter, Samuels show us what he means by the dynamic concept of the ‘activist client’.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Culture 1. Oh No! Not Another Chapter on ‘the Other’ 2. Global Politics, American Hegemony and Vulnerability: Why There Are No Winners in the Battle Between Trickster Pedro Urdemales and the Gringos 3. Age is Just a Number: the Delusion of Maturity and the Fiction of Individuation 4. Politically Engaged Art as Inspiration in Clinic and in Culture – Plus a Reflection on the Dangers of Such a Thing Part 2: Politics 5. The Rationality of Political Violence 6. The Role of the Individual in Progressive Politics – Possibilities and Impossibilities of ‘making a Difference’ 7. Taking the Green Agenda Out of the Margins – Psychological Strategies Part 3: Therapy 8. Pluralism and Psychotherapy – What is a Good Training? 9. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Therapy (but Were Afraid to Ask: Social, Political , Economic and Clinical Fragments of a Critical Psychotherapy) Part 4: Jungian 10. Political and Clinical Developments in Analytical Psychology Since 1972: Subjectivity, Equality and Diversity – Inside and Outside the Consulting Room 11. The Future of Jungian Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (‘swot’) 12. Jung and ‘africans’: a Critical and Contemporary Review of Some of the Issues 13. Sinking Like a Stone: Activism, Analysis and the Role of the Academy Part 5: Clinic 14. From Sexual Misconduct to Social Justice 15. The ‘activist Client’: Social Responsibility, the Political Self, and Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 16. The Transcendent Function and Politics: No!