Political Self - Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness

This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions.

List of contents

Foreword -- INTRODUCTION -- Insight -- Understanding the social context of individual distress -- Power in the therapeutic relationship -- Therapy in late capitalism -- The selfish society: the current state of things -- Divided brain, divided world -- Outsight -- Born to run: wounded leaders and boarding school survivors -- On Killing: the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society -- A tangled web: internet pornography, sexual addiction, and the erosion of attachment -- The corporation as a pathological institution -- We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy—And the World's Getting Worse -- APPENDIX Additional resources

About the author

Rod Tweedy is the editor for Karnac Books and the author of 'The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation', a study of William Blake's works in the light of contemporary neuroscience. He has written a number of articles on the relationship between analysis and creativity, bihemispheric lateralization, Romanticism and popular culture, and the social and environmental contexts for individual distress. He is an active supporter of Veterans for Peace UK and the user-led mental health organisation, Mental Fight Club.

Summary

This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions.

Product details

• Authors: Rod Tweedy, Roderick Tweedy
• Assisted by: Rod Tweedy (Editor), Roderick Tweedy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367328504
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32850-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Psychiatry, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Culture and Psychoanalysis