ABSTRACT

This is an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche. It is packed with original and imaginative ideas on economics, nationalism, "good-enough" leadership, the citizen and the state, women and men, fatherhood, and the citizen as a "therapist of the world". The author offers trenchant and timely critiques of the crisis in contemporary politics. The book will be important for politicians, people in management studies and the media, members of the therapy world, and all political activists.

chapter One|14 pages

The secret life of politics

chapter Two|20 pages

The politics of transformation

chapter Three|11 pages

A new deal for women and men

chapter Four|18 pages

The secret politics of the internal family

chapter Five|11 pages

The secret psychology of political forms

chapter Six|26 pages

The good-enough leader

chapter Seven|21 pages

The good-enough father of whatever sex

chapter Eight|13 pages

Politics, spirituality, psychotherapy

chapter Nine|24 pages

The economic psyche

chapter Ten|15 pages

The political clinic

chapter Eleven|12 pages

Psychotherapy, the citizen and the state

chapter Twelve|9 pages

Exploring national psychologies

chapter Thirteen|12 pages

The transformation of politics