Description
Book SynopsisThis unique collection by leading authors explores the links between therapy and the political world, and their contribution to each other. Topics covered include:
- Psychotherapy in the political sphere, including the roots of conflict, social trauma, and ecopsychology
- Political dimensions of psychotherapy practice, such as discrimination, power, sexuality, and postcolonial issues
- Psychotherapy, the state and institutions, including the law and ethics, and psychotherapy in healthcare
- Working at the interface, examples of therapy in political action from Croatia, the USA, the UK and Israel/Palestine
How to âplaceâ political issues in therapy is highly controversial â for example, whether political themes should be interpreted psychologically in the consulting room, or respected as valid in their own right: similar issues arise for the role of therapeutic insights in political reality. This book provides a map through these complex and demandin
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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.
