The Political Self
Subtitle: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness
By: Rod Tweedy
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780429482762
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychanalyse
Description: "This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions. It therefore looks both inside and outside - indeed one of the main themes of The Political Self is that the conceptually discrete categories of 'inner' and 'outer' in reality constantly interact, shape, and inform each other. Severing these two worlds, it suggests, has led both to a devitalised and dissociated form of politics, and to a disengaged and disempowering form of therapy and analysis. With contributions by: Joel Bakan, John Beveridge, Nick Duffell, Sue Gerhardt, Dave Grossman, James Hillman, Joel Kovel, Iain McGilchrist, Jonathan Rowson, David Smail, Nick Totton, and Michael Ventura"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Insight --; title: chapter ONE Understanding the social context of individual distress*  -- David Smail; title: chapter TWO Power in the therapeutic relationship*  -- Nick Totton; title: chapter THREE Therapy in late capitalism*  -- Joel Kovel; title: chapter FOUR The selfish society: the current state of things*  -- Sue Gerhardt; title: chapter FIVE Divided brain, divided world*  -- Jonathan Rowson Iain McGilchrist; title: part, II Outsight --; title: chapter SIX Born to run: wounded leaders and boarding school survivors*  -- Nick Duffell; title: chapter SEVEN On Killing: the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society*  -- Dave Grossman; title: chapter EIGHT A tangled web: internet pornography, sexual addiction, and the erosion of attachment*  -- John Beveridge; title: chapter NINE The corporation as a pathological institution*  -- Joel Bakan; title: chapter TEN We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy-And the World's Getting Worse* -- James Hillman Michael Ventura.