The Politics of Psychotherapy: New Perspectives

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction

Part 1: Psychotherapy in the political sphere
Politics on the couch? Psychotherapy and society - Some possibilities and some limitations
Societal trauma: Democracy in danger
Conflict, competition and aggression
The breast-milk of the inuit mother: A tale of micro and macrocosm, shadow and light

Part 2: Political dimensions of psychotherapy practice
The politics of sexuality, gender and object choice in therapy
Working with difference: The political context of psychotherapy with an intersubjective dialogue
Power in the therapeutic relationship

Part 3: Psychotherapy, the state and institutions
Values, ethics and the law: A story with some morals
The institutions of psychotherapy
Politics and psychotherapy in the context of healthcare

Part 4: Working at the interface: Psychotherapy in political action
Transforming conflict into community: Post-war reconciliation in Croatia
Israeli psychotherapists and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Bridge Project: Radical psychotherapy for the 21st Century
How to create social activism: Turning the passive to active without killing each other

Index.