Politics on the Couch

This is an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche. It is packed with original and imaginative ideas on economics, nationalism, "good-enough" leadership, the citizen and the state, women and men, fatherhood, and the citizen as a "therapist of the world".

Samuels, Andrew

Preface -- The secret life of politics -- The politics of transformation -- A new deal for women and men -- The secret politics of the internal family -- The secret psychology of political forms -- The good-enough leader -- The good-enough father of whatever sex -- Politics, spirituality, psychotherapy -- The economic psyche -- The political clinic -- Psychotherapy, the citizen and the state -- Exploring national psychologies -- The transformation of politics