Review of Cushman's Travels with the Self: Restoring Psychoanalysis to its Radical Roots as an Agent of Social Change: Philip Cushman, Routledge, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 2019, $40.90 ISBN: 978-I-I38-60554-I

Philip Cushman's collection of papers showcased in his recent book, "Travels with the Self: Interpreting Psychology as Cultural History" coalesce to form a strong critique of psychotherapist/psychoanalytic practitioners, and their compliance with socio-political norms and expectations. As Cushman sees it, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts have gone from being critics of the system to being agents of the system, pushing patients to adjust to social norms. Since Cushman is a hermeneutic philosopher, Heidegger - the founder of ontological hermeneutics - is important to Cushman. [Extracted from the article]