06/10/2026
NEW BOOK ! The Servants of fury .https://www.amazon.com/Servants-Fury-Psychotherapeutic-Journeys-Forbidden-ebook/dp/B0HLY4R8Z8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8AWVRQ19GF3C&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3SKOHnaekIoPh3CjUpjQUSqvwFXdlNP201BCkK28xRE.Fm9PYvOd9whei2IzmNoCdCbkeyvoQ2KXsH7S2XKpp1E&dib_tag=se&keywords=servant+of+fury&qid=1791289803&s=digital-text&sprefix=servant+of+fury%2Cdigital-text%2C234&sr=1-1
What happens when fury ceases to be an emotion we feel and becomes a force we obey?
In The Servants of Fury, relational psychoanalyst and group psychotherapist Stavros Charalambides follows fury from the consulting room into families, therapy groups, training institutes, professional associations, and public life. His central argument is that pain left unwitnessed can become a master, shaping speech, silence, relationships, political convictions, and institutional practices.
This expanded English edition develops the Greek original through eight chapters and a new Epilogue. Clinical narratives, explicitly identified teaching role-plays and constructed illustrations, literature, and cinema bring the theory into lived experience. Encounters with rage, intergenerational trauma, misogyny, antisocial fury, and deadening boredom reveal the demands placed on a therapist who must remain engaged without retaliating, collapsing, or permitting harm.
At the theoretical center of the book is a group turn in relational psychoanalysis: the analytic session understood as a large group with two representatives. Families, siblings, institutions, and social histories enter the room through both participants. Charalambides develops this perspective alongside his concepts of the nonpunitive social superego, the activist superego, and the unwitnessing group.
A companion to The Executioner of Envy, this book asks not only what fury destroys, but what allows a person to recognize it, mourn what has been lost, and begin to live without obeying it. Recognition begins with another who can witness the pain that fury has concealed.
Written for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, group analysts, group psychotherapists, candidates, and readers interested in the psychological forces shaping collective life, The Servants of Fury is a clinically grounded and personally engaged exploration of suffering, recognition, and the possibility of change.
Stavros Charalambides is a writer, theatrical producer, playwright, and training and supervising relational psychoanalyst and group psychotherapist. In 2016, he founded the Greek Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy, which he directs, overseeing four specialized training programs. He is the originator of the 'group turn' in relational psychoanalysis, a theoretical and clinical proposal that extends relational thinking beyond the analytic dyad and calls for group work to become part of psychoanalytic training. He is Associate Editor of Routledge's New International Library of Group Analysis, served on the IARPP Board from 2018 to 2026, and has served on the AGPA Board since 2024. His work explores sibling dynamics, envy, mourning, hatred, and institutional life across the analytic dyad, groups, and the wider social field.
