Hamilton Books
Pages: 148
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-7356-3 • Paperback • October 2022 • $19.99 • (£14.99)
978-0-7618-7357-0 • eBook • October 2022 • $19.00 • (£14.99)
There was no global solidarity in dealing with Covid-19 and its variants. This book reminds us of the importance of and the necessity to incorporate psychosocial and systems dynamics into public policies and dialogues between various ethnic, national, religious and ideological large groups. Shared societal fantasies, anxieties and unconscious defenses need to be understood to shape a positive outcome for the existing complex psychosocial conditions but also to deal with issues we will face in the aftermath of the pandemic. As this book goes to press the war in Ukraine makes the reading of the author’s important observations and suggestions most timely for anyone, including individuals who are in positions to take actions for a better world.
— Vamik Volkan, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Virginia
Dr. Boccara’s seminal work on socio analytic dialogue is an essential survival tool for our polarized world, mired in chaos. Hopefully it will be both read and applied by those in power but also by all of us, whose current cultural and socio-social reactions need significant modification if we as a species are to survive.
— Guillermo Calvo-Mahe, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales in the Republic of Colombia