Professor Andrew Samuels
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Professor Andrew Samuels, is a relational Jungian psychoanalyst, professor, activist and political consultant (including to Britain’s National Health Service). He founded or co-founded many organisations within the ‘psy’ field, including Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, Psychotherapy and Counselling Union, Analysis and Activism, International Association for Jungian Studies, and the Confederation for Analytical Psychology.
Elected Chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy 2009-2012, and has worked as Consultant for Routledge’s Jung List since 1984. He was Honorary Secretary of IAAP 1998-2001.
His many books have been translated into up to 21 languages. These include Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), The Plural Psyche (1989), The Political Psyche (1993), Politics on the Couch (2001), Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics (2015), and A New Therapy for Politics (2018). His new book is just published by Routledge: Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche: Therapy, Testament and Trouble in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis.