For goodness sake, bravery, patriotism and identity by Coline Covington

Williams, Nigel

doi:10.1111/bjp.12804

For goodness sake, bravery, patriotism and identity by Coline Covington

Williams, Nigel

Authors

Nigel Williams Nigel3.Williams@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Lecturer - CHSS - DSS - UPSY0001

Abstract

Coline Covington has a prolific and high-quality output in her writing that combines the social with the psychodynamic and the academic with the clinical. In this her latest book she continues the themes of her recent publication on the nature of everyday evil. In For Goodness Sake, we are immersed in an unusually and refreshingly broad ranging journey into the nature of human responsibility as illuminated by the deep cultural and political crisis in the West. This is a highly textured and carefully thought through piece of writing that examines the nature of bravery as illustrated partly by clinical work and partly by cultural commentary informed by both psychoanalysis and the social sciences. Writing the book is itself brave in its attempt to understand the contemporary world holistically through the lens of what it means to act ethically and take responsibility. Her examples are drawn from many walks of life, several different cultures and across significant periods of time. She shows us the nature of the inner human struggle to act courageously in conditions of extreme conflict and uncertainty. In this she does not flinch from political observation and controversy.

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Nov 24, 2022
Online Publication Date	Jan 18, 2023
Publication Date	Feb 1, 2023
Deposit Date	Feb 14, 2023
Publicly Available Date	Jan 19, 2024
Journal	British Journal of Psychotherapy
Print ISSN	0265-9883
Electronic ISSN	1752-0118
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	39
Issue	1
Pages	261-264
Item Discussed	For Goodness Sake, Bravery, Patriotism and Identity by Coline Covington, published by Phoenix Publishing House, Bicester, 2020, 240 pp, £26.99 paperback.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12804
Keywords	Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology
Public URL	https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10425466
Publisher URL	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjp.12804

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Williams, N. (2023). For Goodness Sake, Bravery, Patriotism and Identity by Coline Covington, published by Phoenix Publishing House, Bicester, 2020, 240 pp, £26.99 paperback. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 39(1), 261-264. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12804, which has been published in final form at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjp.12804

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