Andrew Samuels

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Andrew Samuels (born 19 January 1949)

humanistic
approaches.

Career

Andrew Samuels began his career running a commune-style radical theatre company in the late 1960s and early 1970s, directing plays in and around Oxford. At the age of 22 he declined an offer to become the assistant director at the

social worker and went on to train at the Society of Analytical Psychology (founded in 1946 in London to develop the ideas of Carl Jung
) where he is a training analyst.

He co-founded

psychoanalysts
, psychotherapists and counsellors under one roof, something never previously attempted.

He co-founded "Antidote": a psychotherapy-based

scholars
and clinicians.

Samuels and Renos Papadopoulos were among the first professors of

political theory
, philosophy and religion.

In 2006, he was elected one of the first group of six honorary fellows of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). In 2009, he was elected chair of the UKCP. He is Emeritus Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at

Roehampton University and Visiting Adjunct Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.[4]

Books

Samuels' books include Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), The Father (1986), A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (1986, with Bani Shorter and Alfred Plaut), The Plural Psyche (1989), Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives (1992), The Political Psyche (1993) and Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life (2001). This last book won the Gradiiva Prize 2001 awarded by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Andrew Samuels' books have been translated into 19 languages.

Select bibliography

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles

Newspaper articles

References

  1. ^ "Weekend Birthdays". The Guardian. London, UK: Guardian News & Media: 51. 18 January 2014.
  2. ^ Center, CIS Training (13 April 2004). "Homepage of David H. Rosen M.D." people.tamu.edu.
  3. ^ "Welcome to The Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK". 27 October 2006. Archived from the original on 27 October 2006.
  4. ^ New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

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