The political self: Understanding the social context for mental illness, edited by Rod Tweedy. London, UK: Karnac, 2017. 233 pp.

摘要

In the foreword to this important book, Andrew Samuels says that a "political turn" has been taking place within psychotherapy since the late 1980s. The importance of this turnabout is that, like the "relational turn" within psychoanalysis (Safran, 2003), it forms part of a movement towards a more engaged way of being, where therapists no longer hide away behind a blank screen in their consulting rooms.