This important book gathers a set of influential international contributors with psychoanalytic and group analytic knowledge to provide a wide-ranging critical analysis of the present state of Europe. Europe is facing huge challenges: waves of immigrants are reshaping its identity and testing its tolerance; Brexit is a destabilising factor and its outcomes are not yet clear. This book tackles some of these challenges.
Key Features
- Critical analysis of Europe’s current social, political, cultural and economic trends.
- Application of psychoanalytic and group analytic concepts to manage change.
- Focus on groups for German, Ukrainian and Russian participants.
- Innovative "Sandwich model" for enhancing communication in conflict situations.
Additional Information
Divided into two parts, the first analyses the current trends using psychoanalytic and group analytic concepts, while the second concentrates on existing applications to help manage national and international change across the continent. When we feel threatened, we cling to our in-group and its members. We want to think the same and be the same as our neighbours, but this group illusion of homogeneity conceals the fact that we are different. While homogeneity offers stability, it is diversity that offers freedom.
This book will be of great interest to researchers on the present state of Europe from across a range of different disciplines, from psychoanalysis to politics, sociology, economics and international relations.
