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SAMUELS, ANDREW. Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche: Therapy, Testament and Trouble in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis. Routledge. 2025. Pp. 244. Pbk. £31.99.
Andrew Samuels’ Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche examines the intersections of psychology, politics, culture, and therapy with originality and passion. The book critically addresses themes such as “the Other”, political violence, the role of individuals in progressive politics, and the challenges of integrating a green agenda. It explores provocative ideas, including the concept of the “activist client” in psychotherapy and Jung's perspectives on race. Combining clinical insights with broader cultural critique, Samuels envisions a critical psychotherapy informed by pluralism and activism. Drawing on decades of expertise, he offers profound reflections on psychology's capacity to engage with societal transformation.
GIEGERICH, WOLFGANG. Hope. Dusk Owl Books. 2025. Pp. 82. Pbk. $12.00.
From the perspective of interiority, Giegerich explores the multifaceted concept of hope amidst the climate crisis and the decline of liberal democracy, bypassing comforting answers to instead analyse hope in everyday life, mythology (Pandora's box), and utopian ideologies like Marxism. It traces utopian hope to its roots in Christian theology, offering a psychological reinterpretation of the religious nation of hope. Examining its significance for the soul and humanity, it argues that modernity's loss of religion and metaphysics is not a catastrophe but a historical gift. This shift enables psychology's emergence and introduces the potential for a new, elevated form of psychological hope.
LAKH, ELANA. The Power of Cultural Complexes in Israel: When Trauma, Denial, and Evil Possess Us: Trapped in Myth and Archetype (Neo-Jungian Studies Book 4). 2025. Pp. 98. Pbk. $14.99.