America's Psychological Now

This book explores the causes behind Trump's victory in the 2016 US Presidential election and asks how a psychoanalytic understanding of the social unconscious can help us plot a new direction for the future in US politics and beyond.

Mardy S. Ireland, PhD, psychologist, psychoanalyst, and educator, retired in October, 2023. She is the author of: The Art of the Subject: Between Necessary Illusion and Speakable Desire in the Analytic Encounter and Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood from Female Identity, and a wide range of book chapters and articles. Teri Quatman, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology in Santa Clara University's Graduate Program of Counseling Psychology and is a psychologist in private practice. She has authored multiple academic publications and two books for clinicians: Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art and Accessing the Clinical Genius of Winnicott.

Part 1: Threads 1. In the beginning 2. Living in denial: Our multi-dimensional Unconscious 3. Cracking the geode of Excess 4. Indispensable invisible foundations: Our feminine roots 5. Excess as Access: Foreshadowing unconscious knowledge 6. A tipping point? Part 2: Changing the Narrative 7. A return of the repressed: Lilith arising 8. Moving forward: 20th century Boomers to 21st century Millennials 9. Flight paths: Hillary Clinton & Angela Merkel 10. Warrior work: Ground Zero-ERA passage 11. Warrior work: Ground Zero 2.0--Digital Worlds 12. A call to arms: Re-sistering 13. A Myth for now and going forward: The KVM Chronicles 14. In the end...a beginning