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    A Deeper Cut: Further Explorations of the Unconscious in Social and Political Life

    Editor: David Morgan

    £21.59 – £31.99

    Providing a continuing deeper understanding of world events and humanity itself to all those concerned by the state of the modern world. Building on the bestselling The Unconscious in Social and Political Life, the first book in the Political Minds series, A Deeper Cut  investigates such vital issues as left and right populisms, colonialism and racism, social care for the mentally ill, manipulation of the masses in the third world, Alice Miller on family politics, diversity, Orwellian thinking, trade unions, religious fundamentalism, NHS politics, activism, and tyranny. Featuring compelling contributions from Lord John Alderdice, Elizabeth Cotton, Tomasz Fortuna, Stephen Frosh, Samir Gandesha, Mary Joan Gerson, Liz Greenway, Roger Hartley, Luisa Passalacqua, Kate Pugh, Marco Puricelli, Edgard Sanchez Bernal, Elisabeth Skale, Mark Stein, and Margot Waddell.

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    Editor

    David Morgan

    Series

    The Political Mind

    ISBN

    9781912691197

    Format

    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    312

    Publication Date

    December 2020

    Subject Areas

    Political Theory, Psychoanalysis

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    Galvanised by events outside of his consulting room, David Morgan began The Political Mind seminars at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2015 and their successful run continues today. A series of superlative seminars that examine the effects of the current upheaval going on worldwide, this book is the second to bring these seminars from leading thinkers to a wider audience.

    Leading politicians, writers, educators, psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, psychotherapists, and psychologists are gathered together in this fascinating volume that investigates social upheaval on the worldwide stage. Stimulating and thought-provoking, this is a must-read for every citizen asking just what is happening in the world today.

    About the editor

    About the editor

    David Morgan is a consultant psychotherapist and psychoanalyst fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is also a training analyst supervisor at the British Psychoanalytic Association, and a lecturer recognised nationally and internationally. He co-edited Violence, Delinquency and Perversion (2007) and has authored many publications and chapters, most recently ‘Inflammatory Projective Identification in Political and Economic Terrorism’ in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2018), as well as ‘The Return of the Oppressed’, a speech given at the Warsaw EPF Conference (2018). He is currently a director of Public Interest Psychology Ltd as well as a member of the IPA committee on Humanitarian Organisations. He has been the chair of ‘Political Minds & Frontier Psychoanalyst’, a radio broadcast series on Resonance FM.

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    Contents

    Contents

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    PERMISSIONS

    ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS

    INTRODUCTION
    David Morgan

    CHAPTER ONE
    Understanding right and left populisms
    Samir Gandesha

    CHAPTER TWO
    “Ill fares the land”: reflections on The Merchant of Venice—a tale for modern times
    Margot Waddell

    CHAPTER THREE
    Psychoanalysis, colonialism, racism
    Stephen Frosh

    CHAPTER FOUR
    Consultancy on deregistration to a care home for the long-stay mentally ill: you can take Stig out of the dump, but can you take the dump out of Stig?
    Liz Greenway

    CHAPTER FIVE
    Power and the manipulation of the masses: Third World perspectives
    Edgard Sanchez Bernal

    CHAPTER SIX
    Whistle-blowers—moral good or self-interest? The psychological dimensions of defying a perverse or corrupt authority
    David Morgan

    CHAPTER SEVEN
    Alice Miller on family, power, and truth
    Luisa Passalacqua and Marco Puricelli

    CHAPTER EIGHT
    Diversity: notes from the inside and from the outside
    Tomasz Fortuna

    CHAPTER NINE
    George Orwell: politics and the avoidance of reality
    Roger Hartley

    CHAPTER TEN
    In the union: the psychodynamics of solidarity
    Elizabeth Cotton

    CHAPTER ELEVEN
    On the psychology of religious fundamentalism
    Lord John Alderdice

    CHAPTER TWELVE
    The politics of NHS psychiatry
    Kate Pugh

    CHAPTER THIRTEEN
    Psychoanalytic activism: historical perspective and subjective conundrums
    Mary-Joan Gerson

    CHAPTER FOURTEEN
    The rise of the new right: psychoanalytic perspectives
    Elisabeth Skale

    CHAPTER FIFTEEN
    Lord of the flies: a psychoanalytic view of the gang and its processes
    (Winner of the 2020 Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Essay Prize)
    Mark Stein

    INDEX

    4 reviews for A Deeper Cut: Further Explorations of the Unconscious in Social and Political Life

    1. Eli Zaretsky, Professor of History, New School for Social Research – 04/12/2020

      ‘A Deeper Cut, with its studies of race, anti-Semitism, populism, and the New Right, illuminates the power of the unconscious in group life. It shows that psychoanalysis, once relegated to therapeutic practice, has become an exciting form of social thought.’

    2. Vamik D. Volkan, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, President Emeritus of International Dialogue Initiative, past President of International Society of Political Psychology – 04/12/2020

      ‘The focus of this book is on a deeper understanding of the world in which we live. Societal and political events examined and explained include colonialism, racism, societal and national divisions, the emergence of right-wing parties in Europe, religious fundamentalism, street gangs, trade union activities, and mental health services. Psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically informed contributors also explore the psychology of whistle-blowers, how certain traumatic experiences in childhood affect the development of cruel political leaders’ personality organisation, the impact of different losses on societal movements, the relationship between internal values and external rules, and psychoanalytic activism. Reading this far-reaching book will be an enriching experience and I believe it will help the reader think about how the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic will influence shared human behaviour.’

    3. Rachael McKeown, psychodynamic counsellor, SCAP no. 141 (Summer 2021) sussex-counselling.co.uk – 13/07/2021

      ‘As with the first volume, this book offers us a valuable way to approach politics and delivers – as the title says – a deeper cut.’

    4. Jane Cooper, former senior counsellor at the University of Cambridge – Therapy Today Oct 2021 – 17/02/2022

      ‘I highly recommend this book; it has helped me to keep thinking while listening to the news, to recognise projective patterns in political events, to value complexity over splitting, and, above all, to treasure negative capability – the capacity to tolerate uncertainty.’

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