Politics on the Couch : Citizenship and the Internal Life.
Title:
Politics on the Couch : Citizenship and the Internal Life.
Author:
Samuels, Andrew.
ISBN:
9781849405966
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (247 pages)
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 state -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Exploring national psychologies -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The transformation of politics -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
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". Samuels 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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