Download or read book Politics on the Couch written by Andrew Samuels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche. It is packed with original and imaginative ideas on economics, nationalism, "good-enough" leadership, the citizen and the state, women and men, fatherhood, and the citizen as a "therapist of the world". The author offers trenchant and timely critiques of the crisis in contemporary politics. The book will be important for politicians, people in management studies and the media, members of the therapy world, and all political activists.