Politics on the couch : citizenship and the internal life / by Andrew Samuels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samuels, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Political aspects.

Psychotherapy.

Political psychology.

Social action.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2001.

Summary:

This is an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche. It is packed with original and imaginative ideas on economics, nationalism, "good-enough" leadership, the citizen and the state, women and men, fatherhood, and the citizen as a "therapist of the world". The author offers trenchant and timely critiques of the crisis in contemporary politics. The book will be important for politicians, people in management studies and the media, members of the therapy world, and all political activists.

Contents:

Cover; POLITICS ON THE COUCH; Copy Right; Preface; Acknowledgements; Politics on the Couch; CHAPTER ONE: The secret life of politics; CHAPTER TWO: The politics of transformation; CHAPTER THREE: A new deal for women and men; CHAPTER FOUR: The secret politics of the internal family; CHAPTER FIVE: The secret psychology of political forms; CHAPTER SIX: The good-enough leader; CHAPTER SEVEN: The good-enough father of whatever sex; CHAPTER EIGHT: Politics, spirituality, psychotherapy; CHAPTER NINE: The economic psyche; CHAPTER TEN: The political clinic

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Psychotherapy, the citizen and the stateCHAPTER TWELVE: Exploring national psychologies; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The transformation of politics; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91739-2

0-429-90316-2

0-429-47839-9

1-283-07021-9

9786613070210

1-84940-596-4

9780429478390

OCLC:

723944709