Main description:

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.

Contents:

About the Authors

Introduction: Why is Social and Political Activism Necessary for Psychological Understanding?

Stefano Carta and Emilija Kiehl

Section 1: Leaders, led, migration

1. Extinction anxiety: where the spirit of the depths meets the spirit of the times

Thomas Singer

2. Relationship with authority: moving from helplessness towards experience of authorship

Grazina Gudaite

3. Racial awareness in analysis: philosophical, ethical, and political considerations

Antonio Karim Lanfranchi

Section 2: Ecological and other crises

4. When fathers are made absent by tortures, wars, and migrations: clinical and symbolical perspectives

Tristan Troudart

5. The Garden of Heart & Soul: working with orphans in China - symbolic and clinical reflections

Gao Lan and Heyong Shen

6. Think big: Jung's new age paradigm shift will have an ecological framework

Dennis Merritt

Section 3: Migration, refugees, walls, bridges

7. The Salience of borders in the experience of refugees

Monica Luci

8. Getting on better with prejudice
Begum Maitra

Section 4: Histories and futures

9. Environments of the self, world crises as initiation, and the telos of collective individuation

Scott Hyder

10. The Japanese psyche reflected in the suppression and transformation of 'Hidden Christians' in feudal Japan

Yasuhiro Tanaka

11. History, the orphan of our time, or the timeless stories that make up history

Heba Zaphiriou- Zarifi

12. The Golem-Complex: from Prague to the Silicon Valley

JOErg Rasche

Section 5: Psyche in political context

13. Psychological citizenship: a problem of interpretation

John Beebe

14. Learned helplessness and Roma, the most marginalized of all ethnic groups in Europe

Heather Formaini

15. Nowhere to go: the limits of therapeutic practice

Ali Zarbafi

16. Catalyzing influences of immigrants for developing a multicultural perspective in psychotherapy training institutes

Lynn Alicia Franco