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| About the book |
This unique collection by leading authors explores the links between therapy and the political world, and their contribution to each other. Topics covered include:
Contributors: Lane Arye, Arlene Audergon, Emanuel Berman, Sandra Bloom, Jocelyn Chaplin, Petruska Clarkson, Chess Denman, Dawn Freshwater, Kate Gentile, John Lees, Renos Papadopoulos, Hilary Prentice, Mary-Jayne Rust, Judy Ryde, Andrew Samuels, Nick Totton. |
| About the authors |
Nick Totton originally trained in Reichian therapy in the early 1980s and since then has worked as a psychotherapist and trainer based in Leeds. He has an M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University, where he used to teach. His other books published by Open University Press include Personality and Character Types (with Michael Jacobs), Body Psychotherapy and New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy. |
| Table of contents |
Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction Part 1: Psychotherapy in the political sphere Politics on the couch? Psychotherapy and society - Some possibilities and some limitations Societal trauma: Democracy in danger Conflict, competition and aggression The breast-milk of the inuit mother: A tale of micro and macrocosm, shadow and light Part 2: Political dimensions of psychotherapy practice The politics of sexuality, gender and object choice in therapy Working with difference: The political context of psychotherapy with an intersubjective dialogue Power in the therapeutic relationship Part 3: Psychotherapy, the state and institutions Values, ethics and the law: A story with some morals The institutions of psychotherapy Politics and psychotherapy in the context of healthcare Part 4: Working at the interface: Psychotherapy in political action Transforming conflict into community: Post-war reconciliation in Croatia Israeli psychotherapists and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict The Bridge Project: Radical psychotherapy for the 21st Century How to create social activism: Turning the passive to active without killing each other Index. |
