Populism and The Danger of Illusion

Coline Covington, Ph.D., holds a B.A. in Political Philosophy from Princeton University, an MPhil in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics. She worked for nearly 10 years as a consultant with criminal justice agencies throughout England and set up the first UK mediation project between victims and juvenile offenders with the Metropolitan Police in London. She is a training analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation and former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council as well as a fellow of International Dialogue Initiative (IDI), a think tank formed by Professor Vamik Volkan, Lord Alderdice, and Dr. Robi Friedman to apply psychoanalytic concepts in understanding political conflict. From 2011 to 2013, Coline was Visiting Research Fellow in International Politics and Development at the Open University and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Her publications include Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence (Karnac, 2002); Shrinking the News: Headline Stories on the Couch (Karnac, 2014); Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2015); and Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality (Routledge, 2016). She is in private practice in London.
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