In Conversation with Andrew Samuels: The Political Psyche and the Plural Psyche

Subtitle

Political psyche and the plural psyche, The

Synopsis

A conversation in three parts between Michael Jacobs and
Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels talks with Michael Jacobs about his ideas on how psychotherapy radically informs the political psyche. In three parts:
1: The political psyche; the citizen as therapist; political clinics/workshops; the divorce between power and energy; the political right and religion; parties and coalitions; closing the internal/external gap; religious and spiritual energy; the economic psyche, organising psychotherapy; becoming a healthy discipline.
2: The father in psychoanalytic thought; fathers/daughters and erotic feedback; erotic feedback between father and son; reinforcing the role of the father; the benevolence of male sexuality; aggression in the father/son relationship; father/daughter aggression; ‘the good enough father of whatever sex’; political/social implications.
3: The political psyche in therapy; survey of therapists’ view on politics in therapy; political issuers raised in therapy; hidden politics in non-political material; the politics of psychotherapy; questions of status and hierarchy; ideologies; the therapist as citizen.

Series

In Conversation with..., Series

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 90 min.

Year of production

1996

Availability

Sale; 1997 sale: £49.95 (inclusive) 1997 sale: £200.00 (inclusive) series

Subjects

Psychiatry

Keywords

Jung, Carl Gustav; psychotherapy

Credits

Director

Jon Shears

Cast

Andrew Samuels
Michael Jacobs

Sponsor

Name

University of Leicester, Department of Adult Education

Distributor

Name

University of Leicester, Audio Visual Services

Web

http://www.le.ac.uk/avs External site opens in new window

Phone

0116 252 2917

Fax

0116 252 3993

Address

PO Box 138
University Road
Leicester
LE1 9HN