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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818973103321

Autore

Samuels Andrew

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2001

ISBN

0-429-91739-2

0-429-90316-2

0-429-47839-9

1-283-07021-9

9786613070210

1-84940-596-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/14

Soggetti

Psychotherapy - Political aspects

Political psychology

Social action

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.