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"As I conducted this analysis, the scholarly posts by Mauricio, George, and Andrew, the prose and poetry by Cynthia and Judith, the quote of Fromm, embellished my awareness of the human condition in discussing apocalypse and enriched my understanding of the patient and myself. Therapists are with their patients in the present and communicating, which is a continual reminder that therapists and patients are in the here and now focusing on the patient's difficulties with their inner and outer lives. By your calculus, since I am Black, and see Black patients, I need to seek out White patients because they are different from me. Gianni wrote this in his post which is the bases of my advocacy: I One thing that I have learned in this period from my patients, family, friends and i I colleagues is that the new reality we will all contribute to create, the new co-construction of our i I new reality, is based on one crucial word, one idea, one feeling: B Care. b i Cynthia Apocalypse: Week 4 Daniel - Week 4 - Summary - May 15 "Apocalypse" - the word George sees our obsession with apocalypse in pop narratives as representing "a profound preoccupation with fears of massive loss of selfobject ties and relational connections", rather than with real world-ending events. [Extracted from the article]

Alan G. Vaughan and Andrew Samuels, both Jungian analysts, met earnestly during the Analysis and Activism Conference first held in London in 2014. Impressed with the presentation of new paradigms and applications of principles of analytical psychology beyond the consulting room in communities of ethnically and economically diverse populations, their conversations increased through email exchanges and sharing ideas. In August 2017, they met in person during the International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS) Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the birthplace of Nelson Mandela. The exchanges were spirited and rich, the rapport genuine. Analytical psychology, analysis and activism, politics, economics, the African Diaspora, and the prevalence of the psychopathology of racism were discussed. Their conversations continued, in the Oakland hills of California, on December 17, 2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An Open Letter signed by an international and diverse group of Jungian analysts, clinicians and academics on the topic of Jung and 'Africans' was published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy in November, 2018. It is presented together with Notes written by Andrew Samuels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In November 2018, the British Journal of Psychotherapy published an Open Letter on the topic of Jung and the "Africans". The Open Letter (not a petition) was signed by 35 Jungian clinicians and academics from diverse and international backgrounds. The signatories take responsibility for attending to the many difficulties arising from Jung's writings on "race". Rather than proceeding to castigate Jung, the signatories delineate actions which might be taken with regard to the "decolonisation" of Jungian psychology. The Open Letter is reprinted here in full. Notes explaining the context and providing examples of Jung's attitude are provided by the author, one of the signatories of the Open Letter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper consists of the opening chapter of Andrew Samuels' book The Political Psyche, published in 1993, together with a retrospective introduction. In the chapter, the author discussed the possibilities and limitations of applying depth psychological thinking to social and political problematics. He situates the attempt to make such applications within a wider movement to refresh and reform Western political endeavours. He terms this wider project 'resacralization'. The author cautions against psychological reductionism and a simplistic approach to market-based capitalism, calling for a transformation of the latter to the degree possible. He links sociopolitical criticism and psychological writings on numinous experience, thereby connecting the worlds of politics and depth psychology without losing their separate and unique qualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution from 'the Front Line' comprises a selection of YouTube and other videos that the author has made during the past 6 months in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is written in the context of a debate within the Jungian clinical and academic communities on whether or not some kind of public statement is required concerning Jung’s writings about ‘Africans’, persons of colour and indigenous people. The author eschews argument in favour of such a public statement, opting instead for a ‘forensic’ discussion of the reasons why it is not a good plan to issue such a statement. By so doing, he creates a level playing field in which the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ of a public statement may attract equal attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is written in the context of a debate within the Jungian clinical and academic communities on whether or not some kind of public statement is required concerning Jung’s writings about ‘Africans’, persons of colour and indigenous people. The author eschews argument in favour of such a public statement, opting instead for a ‘forensic’ discussion of the reasons why it is not a good plan to issue such a statement. By so doing, he creates a level playing field in which the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ of a public statement may attract equal attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his response, Samuels argues that the issues under discussion are more of a work in progress than Bodnar claims and that therapists are more accurately perceived of as construction workers than the philosophers and theorists that Cushman wants them to be. More detail is given on working with political material in the session. Economics is presented as a field for exploration in therapy. Certain philosophers are cited for their relevance to clinical work. Theory asbricolageis suggested. Further material on the role of the arts in connection with progressive therapy practice is introduced. Questions of language are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The idea of the “activist client” is intended to be taken both literally and metaphorically—applying to some extent to a wider range of clients than actual activists. The paper develops a set of ideas about a “political turn” in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, using the tag “the inner politician.” There is a focus on working directly with political material in the session, and the pros and cos of this practice are reviewed. Wider issues such as social responsibility and social spirituality are discussed, as well as an exploration of the limits of individual responsibility. Some specific topics covered in the paper include the political roots of depression, difficulties with the concept of the therapeutic alliance from the point of view of democratic perspectives on clinical work, and a challenge to the unquestioned valuing of empathy (based on a reading of therapy though a Brechtian lens). There are numerous clinical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Using a methodology derived from management and organizational studies, the author reviews the future of Jungian analysis. The methodology is termed SWOT - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. A selected list in each of these categories is presented. The author is transparent in allowing for the fact that the paper not only derives from a public lecture on the topic, but also retains the immediacy and the contrarian and opinionated style of such a lecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on description of opposition by several psychotherapists over the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) conference organization in 2016 at Jerusalem. It states illustration of psychotherapists Andrew Samuels campaign regarding movement of conference location from Jerusalem. It mentions presentation of opposition letter by SPR member Mark Widdowson over condemnation of Zionism along with prevalence of anti-Semitism features at Israel.

This article derives from an interview originally conducted for a webinar on relational psychotherapy. The focus is on relational approaches to political and social issues. The possibilities and limitations of such approaches are discussed in the interview. Attention is paid to ecopsychology and also to the interweave between personal experience and societal dynamics. The ways in which the political is still marginalized in psychotherapy are explored. Ideas about how to work directly in the session with clinical material that is political in nature are introduced. Specific attention is paid to situations where the therapist might be repelled by the viewpoints of the client. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an attempt to open discussion on the role of the individual, as opposed to the group, in contemporary progressive and radical politics. The phrase making a difference comes to mind. Academic ideas about the contexts and groups in which individuals operate are important yet require extensive revision. Jung’s ideas about the relationship of individuals and the social collective are useful as is Camus’ (1951/1953) book The Rebel. This article presents new thinking about individuals as fractured and broken as distinct from the autonomous unit promulgated by neoliberal thinking. Yet they remain individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reviews the distortions of global politics wrought by US power and also by US vulnerability. It is understandable that many in the West are far from proud of the achievements of their culture. Those whose concern is for the management of climate change via ecopsychology are right to challenge ‘climate change denial’. But it is problematic when ‘salvation’ is sought from other cultures alleged to have a closer connection to ‘nature’ (itself a problematic term). Though well-meaning, this, the author contends, is politically and psychologically damaging. The author charges many Jungian attempts to compare the ‘Western psyche’ and the ‘psyche’ of indigenous peoples such as the Navajo Native Americans with cultural colonialism, Orientalism, and idealisation. He suggests that other political pathways and projects are needed if the desires of analytical psychology and Jungian studies to exercise social responsibility are to be realised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The leadership failure is analyzed from a psychological point of view. The excessive aspirations lead to depression and a political failure.

Three seemingly consensual propositions concerning psychotherapy and counselling are examined critically. All turn out to be unreliable, tendentious and even damaging: (i) Psychotherapy and counselling can be free and independent professions provided therapists, acting together, fight for them to be that way. (ii) Psychotherapy and counselling are private and personal activities, operating in the realms of feelings and emotions - the psyche, the unconscious, affects rooted in the body. Above all other factors, the single most important thing is the therapy relationship between two people, (iii) Psychotherapy and counselling, and psychotherapy are vocations, not jobs. Therapists are not only motivated by money. In developing his critiques of these propositions, the author utilizes social, political and economic perspectives. The author reviews new clinical thinking on the active role of the client in therapeutic process and suggests that a turn to the legendary figure of the Trickster might be of benefit to the field. The author locates his arguments in his experience of the politics and practices of psychotherapy and counselling, and engages in self-criticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the application of ideas derived from psychotherapy to questions of economic and social policy. It is argued that disputes concerning human nature underlie many debates on economic theory. Class is reviewed from internal and emotional perspectives. Psychological obstacles to the achievement of economic inequality are explored and ways of overcoming them critically discussed. Particular attention is paid to the operation of economic sadism in the behaviour of individuals and societies. A range of possible gender differences in relation to money is reviewed. Inherited wealth is explored from the perspective of ‘therapy thinking’. The paper proposes that we reconsider what is deemed to be realistic and what is deemed to be (hopelessly) idealistic in thinking about economics. The paper concludes by proposing a deeper discussion of the problematic of sacrifice in connection with sustainable economics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing as one engaged in the enterprise, the author discusses critically the possibilities and limitations of psychoanalytic and post-Jungian theorizing in connection with consultancy work in the field of organizations and corporations. Slippage between the individual and more collective perspectives is inevitable and, though intellectually inadequate, may turn out to be useful. Often in such work, the paucity of many approaches to leadership available to consultants becomes apparent. The author contributes some ideas of his own concerning the “good-enough leader.” In the next section of his response, the author discusses whether these consultancy interventions are of any use or not, and concludes, broadly speaking, caveat emptor. Finally, specific ethical challenges inherent in psychoanalytic consultancy work are identified and explored. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents insights regarding psychotherapist and psychologist C. G. Jung by several Jungian analysts including Andrew Samuels, Ruth Williams, and Christopher Hauke. Hauke mentions that Jung was the first psychologist to use the terms like introversion and extraversion. Samuels states that Jung is an intuitive kind of person and that his writings are deeply problematic.

The author argues that the relational turn in psychotherapy has led to moralism, conformism and hypocrisy on the part of many clinicians. Relationality cannot engage with the phenomenon of solitude in a satisfactory manner leading to a potential flight from the unconscious. The author proposes that there is more than one therapy relationship to sondier and that the key task is to hold their simultaneity in mind. He proposes a methodology by which this might be done. The author argues that what is being discussed will be incomprehensible in terms of the project of state regulation of psychotherapy currently being proposed by the British Government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current global crisis is confronting humanity with an unprecedented challenge to find sustainable ways of living. There is a need for cooperative action to find alternatives to the reductionist and materialist mind-sets that have contributed to the current global crisis. This state of affairs calls for a political transformation, which is founded upon a renewed vision that recognizes and values the interdependence of all forms of life. This proposition is underscored by the importance of a shift in consciousness that leads to a greater depth of engagement in life; however, there is no precedent set for how such a change at a collective level could occur. In this article we discuss how the transformational phenomena known as spiritual emergencies may be revealing spontaneous changes in consciousness that could be leading people to experience greater depths in the way that they live. This shift in consciousness can be viewed as an enantiodromia, which is a naturally occurring process that precipitates a reaction or flow to an opposite position when a situation becomes unbalanced or too one-sided. We are suggesting that the enantiodromias of spiritual emergencies are heralding a wake-up call for the collective, which could be initiating a renewed vision for a deeper relationship to consciousness and life as a whole. We conclude by outlining six propositions for initiating a political transformation. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author begins by trying to imagine different models of politics applicable to Western societies. He reflects on the “state we are in” and asks if our present condition of political rupture could ever become political rapture. He asks whether it is possible for citizens to remove themselves from the abusive relationships with heroic, macho leaders. Instead, he states, we might ask where we will find new kinds of leaders who will be “good-enough”. We will need such leaders if we are to manage the staggeringly high levels of conflict and aggression afflicting the political world today. The author suggests that we urgently explore innovative ways to manage conflict in political contexts using new psychological ideas about men, fathers and violence. Finally, he communicates what he has learned from Islam about some hidden aspects of political conflict. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's response to the paper about the future of transference-based therapies written by Lesley Murdin. It states that the possible reason Murdin wrote the paper is her knowledge that those practicing dialectical or dialogical cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) claim that they work with therapy relationship. The author believes that psychoanalytic leadership has indulged in the so called trahison des clercs, a term used in the Middle Ages to castigate the priests or clerics who are against the Pope.

The author explains the political, psychological and ethical reasons for writing about promiscuity. His previous work on what is ‘more-than-personal’ embraced politics and spirituality in the context of psychotherapy. He sets this inquiry in the historical context of the fortieth anniversary of the ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1960s, reviewing critically the debate as to whether there was or was not a revolution. The manifold connections between sexual promiscuity and political critique are explored. This sets the scene for the location of promiscuous phenomena within a spiritual or transpersonal domain. Promiscuities (in the plural) rather than monolithic promiscuity are surveyed in terms of sex and sexual diversity. Promiscuity is reviewed in terms of imaginative process. Finally, the hypocritical attitudes towards promiscuity on the part of many (but not all) psychotherapists are explored with the intention of discovering the reasons for this phenomenon. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the correspondence between Professor Andrew Samuels of Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University and David Veale, chairman of the British Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). The conversation talks on the release of £170 million by secretary Alan Johnson of the Ministry of Health for the National Health Service (NHS) Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) program for people who suffered from anxiety and depression.

The paper consists of the online discussion of Nancy Hollander's ‘Psyche, Ideology, and the Creation of the Political Subject’, summarized. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including the exploration of questions inherent in learning the unknown and learning to speak from unknowing by Julia Cayne and Del Loewenthal and another on the concept of synchronicity between dreams and thoughts by Roderick Main.

This paper consists of a discussion of Neil Altman's ‘Psychoanalysis and war’, which was conducted online through PsyBC in the fall of 2006. Discussants were a group of psychoanalytically oriented thinkers chosen by the author and Nancy Hollander, the author of the other paper included in the discussion. The paper represents the full discussion with only minor edits to correct typographical errors and improve clarity. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Samuels interviewed Dimen in lieu of a book review for her Sexuality, Intimacy, Power. The interview was unstructured and dialogical and covered the following main topics: (a) professional issues in the field of psychoanalysis such as the relation of theory to practice and ref lections on the nature and content of trainings in psychoanalysis; (b) issues in the broad areas of sexuality and gender including the question of moral relativism with respect to sexual behaviors historically designated as "perverse" and considerations of masculinity, femininity, and patriarchy; (c) intellectual considerations such as the relations between anthropology and psychoanalysis and the as yet indeterminate nature of the discipline of psychoanalysis, neither art nor science and not a hybrid of the two; and (d) the political, social, and cultural contexts within which psychoanalytic endeavors including the interview itself are taking place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I am responding to your welcome request for an update concerning the Open Letter on Jung and "Africans" published by the Journal in October 2018. At the recent IAAP conference in Vienna in August 2019, the Open Letter was a prominent topic of conversation. I conclude with an anecdote: There was a meeting of one of the IAAP group members in London in order to discuss the Open Letter. [Extracted from the article]

The remit of the apparatus of professional ethics in the field of psychotherapy can be appropriately expanded so as to make the profession more socially responsible and thereby contribute to the 'protection of the public' that is said to be the main purpose of statutory regulation. Using ideas culled from the sociology of the professions, political theory and ethical discourse, it is proposed that ethical psychotherapy cannot take place if its overall social framework is itself profoundly unethical. Inclusivity and diversity are reframed as ethical professional practices. Questions of wealth, gender, sexuality and ethnicity are not only 'social' or 'political' - they are also part of a morally imaginative expansion of what we mean by professional ethics. Attention is paid to the dangers of self-righteousness and moral tyranny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]