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The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Politics

Author(s) : David P. Levine, Author(s) : Matthew H. Bowker

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…the book offers an important and substantive argument in our fraught political times. Levine and Bowker assert core Object Relations principles, and bring with them a broader defence of Enlightenment values of individuality and progress – coming to terms with our faults and subjectivity will not help us achieve empathy, we need psychological integration and alignment with reality.
Rachael McKeown, Psychodynamic Counsellor, Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy News

While reading this book, I enjoyed the jolts I got from recognizing human nature refracted through the traumatizing scenarios of the TV shows and novels the authors explored. I think there is much to recommend this book.
Annie Peskin, British Journal of Psychotherapy

The authors exhibit a remarkable mastery of classical and contemporary bibliography. [...] Often in the academic world, it is said of a text that it is "thought provoking." Levine and Bowker’s monograph falls into that category. I would say that this is the best adjective that can be assigned to a book. [...] A detailed and complex exposition that pushes the reader to think.
Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Torres, MD, PhD, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2023, 83, (590–593)