Analysis and Activism

Name: Analysis and Activism
Brand: Taylor & Francis
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Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology

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Analysis and Activism explores the recent political engagement of Jungian psychology through a multidisciplinary international collection of activists and scholars. The book is divided into six parts, covering real-world interventions with displaced children and migrants, examinations of care system failures and victims of torture, struggles of indigenous peoples, and discussions on race, class, feminism, and health policy. Further sections address cultural trauma relating to historical and ethnic identities, as well as humanity's fractured relationship with nature and efforts in disaster relief. Throughout, the book critically reflects on Jung's own controversial political legacy while advancing a progressive Jungian political discourse.
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This collection is ideal for Jungian and post-Jungian academics and analysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, and also students and scholars of politics, sociology, psychosocial and cultural studies seeking a radical perspective bridging psychology and contemporary political issues.

Brings together multidisciplinary and international contributors to discuss some of the most compelling issues in contemporary politics.

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Jungian psychology has taken a noticeable political turn in recent years, and analysts and academics whose work draws on Jung’s ideas have made internationally recognised contributions in many humanitarian, communal, and political contexts. This book brings together a multidisciplinary and international selection of contributors, all of whom have track records as activists, to discuss some of the most compelling issues in contemporary politics.

Analysis and Activism is presented in six parts:

Section One, Interventions, includes discussion of what working outside the consulting room means, and descriptions of work with displaced children in Colombia, projects for migrants in Italy, and an analyst’s engagement in the struggles of indigenous Australians.
Section Two, Equalities and Inequalities, tackles topics ranging from the collapse of care systems in the UK to working with victims of torture.
Section Three, Politics and Modernity, looks at the struggles of native people in Guatemala and Canada and oral history interviews with members of the Chinese/Vietnamese diaspora.
Section Four, Culture and Identity, studies issues of race and class in Brazil, feminism and the gendered imagination, and the introduction of Obamacare in the USA.
Section Five, Cultural Phantoms, examines the continuing trauma of the Cultural Revolution in China, Jung’s relationship with Jews and Judaism, and German-Jewish dynamics.
Finally, Section Six, Nature: Truth and Reconciliation, looks at our broken connection to nature, town and country planning, and relief work after the 2011 earthquake in Japan.

There remains throughout the book an acknowledgement that the project of thinking forward the political in Jungian psychology can be problematic, given Jung’s own questionable political history. What emerges is a radical and progressive Jungian approach to politics informed by the spirit of the times as well as by the spirit of the depths.

This cutting-edge collection will be essential reading for Jungian and post-Jungian academics and analysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists, and academics and students of politics, sociology, psychosocial studies, and cultural studies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138948099

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 May 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 33 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Halftones, color; 15 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, color; 48 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Andrew Samuels
Edited by Emilija Kiehl
Edited by Mark Saban

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 640g

Pages: 262

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About the Author

Emilija Kiehl is a Jungian analyst in private practice in London. She is Chair of the British Jungian Analytic Association (BJAA) and member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). She teaches on the BJAA external courses and on the BJAA/Birkbeck, University of London MSc in the Psychodynamics of Human Development.

Mark Saban is a Jungian analyst working in Oxford and London. He also lectures on Jungian psychology at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Andrew Samuels works internationally as a political consultant with politicians, parties and activist groups. He was co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility in 1994 and chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy 2009–2012, and is Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex and Visiting Professor at New York, Roehampton, Macau and Goldsmiths, University of London. His books have been translated into 21 languages.