ABSTRACT

In this book, a multidisciplinary and international selection of Jungian clinicians and academics discuss some of the most compelling issues in contemporary politics.

Presented in five parts, each chapter offers an in-depth and timely discussion on themes including migration, climate change, walls and boundaries, future developments, and the psyche. Taken together, the book presents an account of current thinking in their psychotherapeutic community as well as the role of practitioners in working with the results of racism, forced relocation, colonialism, and ecological damage.

Ultimately, this book encourages analysts, scholars, psychotherapists, sociologists, and students to actively engage in shaping current and future political, socio-economic, and cultural developments in this increasingly complex and challenging time.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

Why is social and political activism necessary for psychological understanding?

part Section 1|34 pages

Leaders, led, migration

chapter Chapter 1|7 pages

Extinction anxiety

Where the spirit of the depths meets the spirit of the times

chapter Chapter 2|11 pages

Relationship with authority

Moving from helplessness towards experience of authorship

chapter Chapter 3|14 pages

Racial awareness in analysis

Philosophical, ethical, and political considerations 1

part Section 2|24 pages

Ecological and other crises

chapter Chapter 4|5 pages

When fathers are made absent by tortures, wars, and migrations

Clinical and symbolical perspectives

chapter Chapter 5|10 pages

The Garden of Heart & Soul

Working with orphans in China –symbolic and clinical reflections

chapter Chapter 6|7 pages

Think big

Jung’s new age paradigm shift will have an ecological framework

part Section 3|31 pages

Migration, refugees, walls, bridges

chapter Chapter 8|16 pages

Getting on better with prejudice

part Section 5|48 pages

Psyche in political context

chapter Chapter 13|7 pages

Psychological citizenship

A problem of interpretation

chapter Chapter 15|12 pages

Nowhere to go

The limits of therapeutic practice