North Pacific Institute for Analytical Psychology , Northwest Center
for Psychoanalysis & Antioch University
Proudly welcomes
Jungian Analyst & Political Consultant
Professor Andrew Samuels
October 20th, 2008 Trinity Parish Hall 7:30pm
The Political Psyche:
Psychotherapy and Society - Realizing the Potential
Despite the new hope that many Americans feel in this coming election cycle, a more general sense persists that politics in the Western world is broken. Is there a role for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in understanding the crisis in Western politics? Questions that could be addressed with a therapeutic approach to politics include:
- What are the psychological consequences of living in an economically unjust and ecologically destructive world?
- Can a materialistic and rational worldview come to incorporate spiritual values? Is this a viable concept or is it merely retrogressive and sentimental?
- Rather than ‘heroic’ leaders, do we instead need ‘good-enough’ leaders. What would such leaders look like?
- What new approaches to fear, despair and media manipulation are possible with a new therapy for politics?
Drawing on his experiences as a political consultant, Jungian Analyst Andrew Samuels suggests that psychotherapy can contribute to a transformation of politics and generate a sense of purpose in both private and public life. Writing of Samuels’ most recent book, Politics on the Couch, former US Senator Bill Bradley said that it was ‘An important contribution to thinking about politics…moving, insightful and optimistic.’ The Guardian said the book was ‘A wonderfully subversive, hugely ambitious bid to recast political debate…Puts the emotional and spiritual back into politics and the political back into the private.’
Andrew
Samuels is recognised internationally as a leading
commentator on politics from a psychological perspective. In addition
to his clinical practice as a Jungian Analyst in London, he works as
a political consultant in several countries. He is Professor of Analytical
Psychology at the University of Essex, UK and Adjunct Clinical Visiting
Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy,
New York University. He is also Honorary Professor of Psychology and
Therapeutic Studies at Roehampton University and Visiting Professor of
Psychoanalytic Studies in the University of London. He is the founder
of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, the 2004
holder of the Hans W. Loewald Award for Distinguished Services of the
International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, an Honorary Fellow
of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and a Founder Board
Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis
and Psychotherapy. His books include Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), The
Father (1986), A
Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis(1986), The Plural
Psyche (1989), Psychopathology (1989), The
Political Psyche (1993) and Politics on the Couch: Citizenship
and the Internal Life (2001).
For further information, please refer to Andrew’s website at: www.andrewsamuels.com
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Event
Location:
Parish Hall at Trinity Parish
Episcopal Church
609 – 8th Ave. in Seattle
Directions/ Parking: Parish Hall is located on 8th Ave., one building north of Trinity Church which is on the NW corner of James Street and 8th Ave. Trinity’s free parking lot is located on 7th Ave. between Columbia and Marion, one block northwest of James and 8th. From the I-5 freeway, either direction, take the James Street exit and head east up the hill several blocks, then turn left onto 7th Ave. to locate the parking lot, which is well marked. Walk up one block and turn right onto 8th and you will locate Parish Hall on the right side of the street at 609- 8th Ave.