Analytical and Jungian psychology Books

Book SynopsisI can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' Carl JungAn eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings.In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life.Trade Review‘Jung’s single-minded humility, his passion to unearth truth, is one of the loveliest impressions to emerge from this absorbing and many-sided book’ The Times ‘He was on a giant scale … he was a master physician of the soul in his insights, a profound sage in his conclusions. He is also one of Western Man’s great liberators’ J. B. Priestley, Sunday Telegraph ‘Like any true prophet or artist he extended the range of the human imagination … to be able to share Jungian emotions is surely an almost necessary capacity of the free mind’ Polly Toynbee, Observer ‘A fascinating peek behind the curtain of Jung's mind, revealing a wonderland of wisdom, experience, and self-reflection’ Brain Pickings 'He was more than a psychological or scientific phenomenon; he was to my mind one of the greatest religious phenomena the world has ever experienced’ Laurens van der Post 'His psychological approach is deeply interesting and should stimulate many who are today more ready to trust a doctor than a clergyman, to help them to rediscover the meaning of life' Guardian

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Book SynopsisMotherhood is the true hero's journey-which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery. In Motherhood, Marchiano draws from a deep well of Jungian analysis and symbolic research to present a collection of fairytales, myths, and fables that evoke the spiritual arc of raising a child from infancy through adulthood. After all, this kind of storytelling has always been one of the most important conduits of humanity's collective wisdom-and Marchiano provides each tale alongside keen insights into the timeless archetypes they represent. Divided into three major segments similar to the stages of a hero's initiatory journey, (Descent, Sojourn, and Return), Motherhood charts how events like pregnancy, the calamities of childhood, and the empty-nest experience are all parts of an odyssey to which every mother receives an invitation. Here Marchiano emphasizes that when you take up that invitation, it will lead to an adventure into the wild frontier of your own soul. And once you return from this inner journey, you'll possess the treasured knowledge need to clarify your values, embrace your disowned parts, and claim the mantle of motherhood in the full bloom of your empowerment.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of 'Archteypes' and the hypothesis of 'A Collective Unconscious' are two of Jung's better known and most exciting ideas. In this volume - taken from the Collected Works and appearing in paperback for the first time - Jung describes and elaborates the two concepts.Three essays establish the theoretical basis which are then followed by essays on specific archetypes. The relation of these to the process of individuation is examined in the last section. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious is one of Jung's central works. There are many illustrations in full colour. Trade ReviewAn eloquent witness to Jung's greatness of mind and heart. His idea of th archetype involves profound attitudes towards man's existence and intimates values through which very many people have found a new significance in their lives. - Journal of Analytical PsychologyTable of ContentsArchetypes of the Collective Unconscious. The Concept of the Collective Unconscious. Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept. Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype. Concerning Rebirth. The Psychology of the Child Archetype. The Psychological Aspects of the Kore. The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales. On the Psychology of the Trickster-figure. Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation. A Study in the Process of Individuation. Concerning Mandala Symbolism.

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Book SynopsisA Masterful Author and Jungian Analyst Examines the Qualities That Bring Meaning to Our Human Journey. What is it that brings meaning to your life? Our culture tells us to seek wealth, power, prestige, or even enrollment in someone else's idea of a worthy cause-yet where do we turn when these paths fail to fulfill our need for purpose? "When the old stories and beliefs that once defined us have played out and grown exhausted," teaches Dr. James Hollis, "our task is to access our inner compass, the promptings of the psyche that help us find our way through the complex thickets of choice." A Life of Meaning is Hollis's profound exploration of the nature of meaning and how we can orient toward it or away from it with the choices we make. Hollis offers an examination of myth, literature, historical figures, and the wisdom of depth psychology that provides penetrating insight into the search for purpose. Join him to explore: . How even cherished narratives splinter and lose potency over time . Why dreams are windows into your internalized patterns and base assumptions . How to excavate and understand your earliest, most foundational beliefs . The power of fear and how it shapes unconscious reactions . Recognizing and rising to the occasion of a "summons of the soul" . How to anchor yourself during times of uncertainty and change . Why it's important to be aware of and closely examine your shadow . How to reckon with old feelings of shame, betrayal, resentment, and regret We all have to discover our own sense of meaning. No one else can do it for us. In A Life of Meaning, Hollis offers no easy answers or feel-good certainties-instead, he shares his most valuable questions and reflections to help you find the courage, persistence, and inspiration to navigate your own odyssey. "It's humbling work, this process of getting our lives back," he teaches. "Yet I submit to you that's worth the price of the ticket, for in the journey our lives become ever more luminous."

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Book SynopsisAn unprecedented, dreamwork-centered guide for exploring and understanding your dreams, presented by three Jungian analysts and the hosts of the podcast This Jungian LifeWith Dream Wise, three expert teachers bring you a resource like none before ita comprehensive, step-by-step guide synthesizing Carl Jung's renowned theories with the best approaches of those who have followed in his footsteps. Ideal for every level of experience, Dream Wise is for all who are ready to meet the faithful other, the dream maker, who visits each night with gifts of wisdom.The goal is to do dreamwork, not just learn about itYour dreams offer a wealth of wisdom and wonder, explain the authors. They are one of the best, most reliable ways to get to know our mysterious depths. But you mustquite literallyrise to meet them. Sustained dreamwork facilitates a dialogue between the surface and the depths and is an essential aid in our process of u

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Book SynopsisThis landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how the feminine has bTrade Review"Neumann's creative intuition has enabled him to read in these records of the past a content and meaning that throws a beam of light on the psychological history of [hu]mankind."--Journal of Analytical PsychologyTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION, pg. vii*FOREWORD, pg. xiii*NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, pg. xv*CONTENTS, pg. xvii*LIST OF PLATES, pg. xxi*LIST OF TEXT FIGURES, pg. xxxix*PREFACE, pg. xlvii*Chapter One. THE STRUCTURE OF THE ARCHETYPE, pg. 3*Chapter Two. THE ARCHETYPAL FEMININE AND THE GREAT MOTHER, pg. 18*Chapter Three. THE TWO CHARACTERS OF THE FEMININE, pg. 24*Chapter Four. THE CENTRAL SYMBOLISM OF THE FEMININE, pg. 39*Chapter Five. THE TRANSFORMATION MYSTERIES, pg. 55*Chapter Six. THE FUNCTIONAL SPHERES OF THE FEMININE, pg. 64*Chapter Seven. THE PHENOMENON OF REVERSAL AND THE DYNAMIC OF THE ARCHETYPE, pg. 75*Chapter Eight. INTRODUCTION, pg. 89*Chapter Nine. THE PRIMORDIAL GODDESS, pg. 94*Chapter Ten. THE POSITIVE ELEMENTARY CHARACTER, pg. 120*Chapter Eleven. THE NEGATIVE ELEMENTARY CHARAc'rER, pg. 147*Chapter Twelve. THE GREAT ROUND, pg. 211*Chapter Thirteen. THE LADY OF THE PLANTS, pg. 240*Chapter Fourteen. THE LADY OF THE BEASTS, pg. 268*Chapter Fifteen. SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION, pg. 281*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 337*ERICH NEUMANN, pg. 353*INDEX, pg. 355*PLATES, pg. 381

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Book SynopsisMore than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the twentieth century's greatest articulator of the primacy of mind in nature, a view whose origins vanish behind the mists of time. Underlying Jung's extraordinary body of work, and providing a foundation for it, there is a broad and sophisticated system of metaphysical thought. This system, however, is only implied in Jung's writings, so as to shield his scientific persona from accusations of philosophical speculation. The present book scrutinizes Jung’s work to distil and reveal that extraordinary, hidden metaphysical treasure: for Jung, mind and world are one and the same entity; reality is fundamentally experiential, not material; the psyche builds and maintains its body, not the other way around; and the ultimate meaning of our sacrificial lives is to serve God by providing a reflecting mirror to God’s own instinctive mentation. Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.

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Book SynopsisWhat guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology. What makes the challenges of our time so unique and daunting in human history? Technology? Resource depletion? In Living Between Worlds, Dr. James Hollis challenges us to look within for the real cause. “Few of our ancestors, if any, became enemies of themselves as we do; few split themselves off from their internal forms of guidance,” he explains. “We can serve the drives for power, wealth, status, whatever, but we cannot create meaning. Meaning is a by-product of being in right relationship to our soul.” Dr. Hollis’s readers know him as a penetrating thinker who brings profound insight and sophistication to the inner journey. In Living Between Worlds, he broadens his lens to encompass the relationship between our inner struggles and the rapidly shifting realities of modern human existence. This is not a journey that will yield easy answers or pat reassurances. Yet by invoking the guidance of depth psychology, classical literature, philosophy, and myth, you will gain access to resources of purpose, courage, and hope that transcend time and circumstance. “We will always live in in-between times,” Hollis teaches. “Perhaps we may drop our plumb line into those same guiding currents which ran through the souls of the ancients . . . and run through ours as well.”

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Book SynopsisFrom bestselling author and Jungian psychoanalyst Dr. James Hollis comes a new collection of essays exploring life?s challenges and celebrating evolving questions on life?s mysterious journey.In a world seemingly set up for distraction, life can often feel like it?s dividing you not only from others but also from yourself. Yet even within the cacophony of life, deep down you can intuit your own soul, that part of you that knows you better than you know yourself, and that offers direction and moments of solace, even amid uncertainty.This disconnect from your inner source of guidance leads to self-doubt, but in Living With Borrowed Dust, Hollis provides a reminder that you carry within what you?re so anxiously looking for from a crazed world. ?Behind the noise and beneath the surface, something in the soul of each of us cries out,? he says. ?While we may be distracted from this summons, the soul keeps asking that we pay attention.? These summonses come to us through symptoms, dreams, and restless nights. Gaining insight into these inner insights, the meaning within our challenges, and the courage it takes to move through our journey can help us feel better connected through difficult times. Here, Hollis reveals tools you can utilize to engage in this conversation with the soul.In this collection of essays, readers are guided to reflect deeply on questions that explore and celebrate life''s challenges in our evolving world, including how happiness is attained, how to approach your dreams, the divided soul of America, the fear and fascination with death, and the conflict between good and evil. With each new insight, Hollis aims to steer you toward an individual, self-determining path, zeroing in on the need for personal accountability and decisive growth. Using analytic psychology as a vehicle for the recovery of a spiritual life in a secular age, you?ll find inspiration for reconnecting with deep wisdom, bringing renewed purpose and dignity to this mysterious journey called life.

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Book SynopsisThe Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this inflTrade Review"There can be no doubt that [Neumann] has brought to his task a remarkable ... knowledge of classical mythology, some considerable acquaintance with the comparative study of religion, and a deep understanding of those psychological views and theories evolved by C. G. Jung."--The Times Literary Supplement "A welcome source of information for all those who are touched by the relationship between man and his myths."--The New York Times "No better exposition has come to us of the two Jungian themes: the evolution of consciousness in the history of mankind and the development of personality in the individual."--The PersonalistTable of ContentsTranslator's Note vi Note of Acknowledgement vi List of Illustrations xi Foreword by C.G. Jung xiii Introduction xv Part I: THE MYTHOLOGICAL STAGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS A: THE CREATION MYTH I The Uroboros 5 II The Great Mother 39 III The Separation of the World Parents: The Principle of Opposites 102 B: THE HERO MYTH I The Birth of the Hero 131 II The Slaying of the Mother 152 III The Slaying of the Fater 170 C: THE TRANSFORMATION MYTH I The Captive and the Treasure 195 II Transformation, or Osiris 220 PART II: THE PYSCHOLOGICAL STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY A: THE ORIGINAL UNITY Controversion and Ego Formation 261 The Ego Germ in the Original Uroboric Situation 266 Development of the Ego out of the Uroboros 275 Centroversion in Organisms on the Uroboric Level 286 Centroversion, Ego, and Consciousness 293 Further Phases of Ego Development 306 B: THE SEPARATION OF THE SYSTEMS Centroversion and Differentiation 315 The Fragmentation of Archetypes 320 Exhaustion of Emotional Components: Rationalization 321 Secondary Personalization 335 The Transformation of Pleasure-Pain Components 342 The Formation of Authorities within the Personality 349 The Synthetic Function of Ego 356 C: THE BALANCE AND CRISIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Compensation of the Separated Systems: Culture in Balance 363 The Schism of the Systems: Culture in Crisis 381 D: CENTROVERSION AND THE STAGES OF LIFE Prolongation of Childhood and Differentiation of Consciousness 397 Activation of Collective Unconscious and Ego Changes in Puberty 407 Self-Realization of Centroversion in the Second Half of Life 409 APPENDICES I The Group and the Great Individual 421 II Mass Man and the Phenomena of Recollectivization 436 Bibliography 445 Index 461

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Book SynopsisThis book charts the author's long journey of healing from the trauma caused by having to go into hiding as a child and having to deny that she was Jewish. Marika Henriques records in words and images how she was shaped and her profession determined by historical events.Trade Review“Marika Henriques weaves word, poetry, drawing and tapestry to explore and make sense of her dark past as a Holocaust child survivor. The Hidden Girl is a beautiful book. Dreamlike and nuanced it celebrates the redemptive power of creativity and Judaism. It is a moving testament to the indomitable power of the human spirit.” Charlotte Bogard, Playwright // “Marika Henriques’s book made a lasting impact on me. I thought I knew all there is to know about the horrors of the Holocaust until I read it. It is a unique rendering which reaches one’s deepest self, the dimension of emotions we all share. Marika shows through her own experience the lasting damage that trauma inflicts on children - the difficulties they have as a consequence to become emotionally independent from their past and to regain their true identity. In her analytic way she demonstrates her struggles and her courage, and above all her determination to be herself. It is a great book.” Colette Littman, Director of The Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation // “A powerful and moving story unlike any other Holocaust story I have read or seen, because it expresses deeply buried feelings not only in words but in extraordinary drawings, tapestries and poems. The combination is unique. This story will help many others who had traumatic beginnings.” Lenka Murphy, formerly with The Prince’s Charities // “This is a book which has the ability to give hope and inspiration to anyone who has suffered. It is moving, written with courageous honesty, about profound experiences. It is a living example of the beneficial power of the psyche and our souls, if we follow and trust them, to lead us to a deep understanding of our personal selves and the collective world around us, accepting both the good and the evil, life and death. It is a remarkable book.” Maggie Stanway, Chair of C. G. Jung Club London

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Book SynopsisC.G. Jung''s letters to the artist and analysand Hedy Wyss, published here for the first time, are a unique testimony to Jung''s vivid and sparkling spirit. Here we encounter the lively, compassionate and deeply human side of Jung''s nature. He writes neither scientifically nor cautiously, but quite spontaneously out of his respective state of mind. He mentions his suffering from various physical ailments to Hedy Wyss, such as heart troubles and rheumatism. At the same time he struggles for the integrity of the analytical relationship and the veracity of love. Jung wrote his most important works during the twenty years of their correspondence, concluding with Mysterium Coniunctionis. Accordingly, in many of his letters to Hedy Wyss, hidden references to the problems he wrestled with at any given time can be found throughout these works. As a result, the content of Jung''s letters required a comprehensive commentary. Alongside Jung''s works, a private manuscript written by Hedy Wyss, in which, years after his death, she looked back on her encounters with C.G. or the Old Sage as she liked to call him, furthered understanding of many details in the letters. These sources give us a unique insight into C.G. Jung''s singular approach as a researcher and analyst.

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Book SynopsisChange Your Story, Change Your Life is a practical self-help guide to personal transformation using traditional shamanic techniques combined with journaling and Carl Greer’s method for dialoguing that draws upon Jungian active imagination. The exercises inspire readers to work with insights and energies derived during the use of modalities that tap into the unconscious so that they may consciously choose the changes they would like to make in their lives and begin implementing them.

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Book SynopsisBeneath the surface we are all connected . . .''An authentically soothing, powerful, thought-provoker.''MATT HAIG''On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.''MAX PORTER''On Connection came to me when I needed it most, and reminded me that the links we have to places, people, words, ourselves, are what keep us alive.''CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSThis is a book about connection. About how immersing ourselves in creativity can help us cultivate greater self-awareness and bring us closer to each other.Drawing on two decades of experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest champions the role of creativity in whatever form we choose to practice it as an act of love, helping us establish a deeper relationship to our true selves, and to others and the world we live in.Honest, hopeful and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is an inspiring personal meditation that will transform the way you see the world.''Persuasive and profound.'' OBSERVER''Tempest's prose is crisp and thoughtful.'' NEW STATESMAN

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Book Synopsis*The original book behind the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test*Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person''s uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you''ve seen. It then explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career and in your personal relationships. For more than 60 years, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool has been the most widely used instrument in the world for determining personality type, and for more than 25 years, Gifts Differing has been the preeminent source for understanding it.Trade ReviewRinging with practical implications, Gifts Differing both educates and inspires. -- Judy Waterman, Principal, Career Management Group

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Book SynopsisSandplay therapy is based on the psychology of Carl Jung and developed by the Swiss psychotherapist and teacher Dora Kalff. In this beautiful full-colour volume, sandplay therapist Barbara Turner has recorded Dora Kalff's teachings, transcribed from the shorthand notes she made during the original lectures.Table of Contents Preface Sandplay with Adolescents Boy Age 15: Failing at School and Withdrawn Development Toward Pregnancy Boy Age 12: Failed Exams Girl Age 16: Isolated with Psychosomatic Symptoms Woman Age 46: Depressed with Negative Animus Pregnant Woman: Early 30’ References Mentioned in Text Resources for Sandplay Training About the Editor Index

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Book SynopsisDr. Tina Stromsted introduces her Soul's Body approach in this extraordinary volume, engaging the body-psyche connection in psychotherapeutic work. Through compelling case studies, the author illustrates multidisciplinary concepts, therapeutic techniques, trauma-informed practices, and teaching guidelines essential for body-psyche-spirit healing.Stromsted's method expands Authentic Movement, rooted in Jung's Active Imagination approach, into a range of creative somatic practices within depth psychotherapy. Soul's Body fosters deeper self-awareness through bodily expression, dreamwork, creative imagination, empathic relationship, community engagement, and ourconnection with nature. This collection illuminates elements in the embodied healing process that can benefit professionals in the healing arts Jungian analysts, clinicians, somatic psychotherapists, dancers, bodyworkers, artists, spiritual practitioners, and creative arts therapists. With over 45 years of clinical experience and decades of collaborations with pioneering clinicians Joan Chodorow, Janet Adler, Marion Woodman, and Stanley Keleman, Stromsted guides readers on an engaging journey toward conscious embodiment.This book is a welcome companion for anyone interested in Jungian depth work, embodied spirituality, and cultivating a vital, meaningful life.

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Book SynopsisBased on new archival materials and a decade of research, Revolution in Mind is a radically new history of psychoanalysis. It tells the story of the birth, development, and death of psychoanalysis in Europe between 1870 and 1945, integrating these chapters into a coherent narrative for the first time.Trade Review'Brilliant... A magisterial study that moves beyond the heated disputes of past decades to gives us a detailed, deeply reflective history... The book will serve historians of the field, as well as undaunted readers, for many years to come' Financial Times'Gripping... At last: a history of psychoanalysis without partisanship or rancour. This neutral and thorough account of one of the most controversial intellectual movements to sweet Europe and the world... is greatly needed today... An impressive achievement' Literary Review'Rich and even-handed enough for partisans on both sides of the divide to find ammunition for their cause... Makari's lucid and thoroughly researched book is an indispensable guide' TLS'This history of psychoanalysis aims to display, as they bubble up, ideas that are hardly ideas any longer, more part of our psychic landscape. George Makari... lets us in on the stage where what has since hardened into dogma is still in flux, showing us how Freud took on and discarded theories, tinkering and patching. Similarly fluid, as Makari shows, is the ownership of idea' Guardian'Not only of high scientific value but also enjoyable to read... Makari has succeeded in writing an important, even brilliant book... An immensely joyful experience' International Journal of Psychoanalysis'Freud's context is more fully elaborated by Makari than ever before. I admire in particular the sanity and balance of this work, since it shows that Freud's value transcends his scientism' Harold Bloom'George Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind... an astounding breadth of knowledge and an unprecedented gift for synthesis' Paul Auster

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Book SynopsisUnavailable for many years, this book has remained the foundational text on sandplay psychotherapeutic theory. The theoretical mechanics of how Sandplay works to heal and transform the psyche are articulated and applied to a complete Sandplay case.Table of Contents Foreword: Katherine Bradway, 2003 Author’s Note: 1983 Preface: Dora M. Kalff, 1983 PART ONE SANDPLAY THERAPY: THEORY AND PRACTICE Introduction The Evolution of Sandplay Magic Circles and Fantasies Pioneers in Sandplay Therapy A Game Without Rules Eight Basic Concepts A Free and Protected Space Reconstructing the Mother Image Recovery of the Feminine Feminine Aspects of Sandplay A Feminine Way to the Spirit Sandplay as a Way to Transformation A Bridge to the World A Safe Outlet for Aggression Feeling, Creating, Centering The Recovery of Feeling The Act of Creating A Form of Meditation Redirecting Energy Resistance A Diagram of the Psyche A Comparison of Verbal Analysis and Sandplay Developmental Stages An Unguided Way to Self A Few Words of Caution The Shadow and the Cross Overview PART TWO CASE PRESENTATION Tray 1 – Indications of Problem and Possible Resolutions: The father complex and other therapeutic issues Tray 2 – Penetration to the Personal Unconscious: Further clarification of the problems and healing possibilities Tray 3 – Activation of Instincts: Potential for commitment appears Tray 4 – Transition: Indication of changing values Tray 5 – Resolution of Father Complex Begins Tray 6 – Harbinger of Nascent Ego Appears Tray 7 – Centering: Pre-figuration of integration of relevant issues Tray 8 – Resolution of Paranoid Inflation Tray 9 – Differentiation of Masculine and Feminine Elements in the Personality Tray 10 – Movement Toward Connection of Masculine and Feminine Elements Tray 11 – Constellation of the Self Tray 12 – Separation from Father and Reconciliation Tray 13 – Symbols of Renewal Appear Tray 14 – The Emergence of the Anima and the Birth of a New Consciousness Glossary Table of Illustrations Table of Works Cited Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReveals myth and “otherness” as keys to restoring self, nature, and society• Shows how myths contain medicine to restore wholeness amidst trauma, exile, sudden life change, disability, illness, death, or grief• Synthesizes lessons from shamanic practice, quantum physics, alchemy, soul poetry, wildness, social justice, and the author’s lived experience• Discloses the blessings of outsiderhood and the gifts and insights gained and contributed to culture by those who are marginalized and outcastThere is an “other” that lives within each of us, an exiled part that carries wisdom needed for ourselves and the culture at large. Having survived disabling polio as an infant, Daniel Deardorff knows the oppressions of exclusion and outsiderhood. He guides readers on an initiatory journey through ancient myth, literature, and personal revelation to discover our own true identity. These 10,000-year-old stories contain sacred medicine with insights that release imagination and restore wholeness amid trauma, exile, climate chaos, disability, illness, death, and grief. Illustrating how archetypal figures of the Other--the Trickster, Daimon, Not-I, etc.--hold paradox, Deardorff teaches us to reframe disparities of self/other, civilization/ wilderness, form/deformity and transform the experience of being outcast. Synthesizing lessons from shamanic practice, quantum physics, alchemy, social justice, and his own lived experience, Deardorff affirms the disruptive and transgressive forces that break through dogma, conventionality, and prejudice. He discloses blessings of outsiderhood and gifts to culture by those who are marginalized. Through mythmaking (mythopoesis), the experience of Otherness--cultural, racial, religious, sexual, physiognomic--becomes one of empowerment, a catalyst for human liberation.Trade Review“One of the most astonishing, thought-provoking, and strategically subversive books I’ve ever read. The Other Within weaves mythology, depth psychology, and profound musings on disability and art, dancing at the edge of the unsayable to unmake the social structures that oppress us all.” * Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes *“A book to savor . . . a love song to the Outsider, a paeon to the transformative potential of myth, a profound and generous guidebook for living wholeheartedly in dangerous times.” * Sharon Blackie, Ph.D., author of If Women Rose Rooted and The Enchanted Life *“The ‘other within’ is uncertain terrain for many, and we need someone to guide us through this labyrinth of the unfamiliar. Daniel Deardorff is that expert guide. Essential reading.” * Clyde W. Ford, author of Of Blood and Sweat and The Hero with an African Face *“This book is a well, a portal, a very carefully tended path into the mysteries of myth. It is also a map, a worthwhile one for learning how to transcend the complexities and challenges faced by individuals on entering this Earth. It is a must-read for those wanting to understand boldness of heart in the face of adversity.” * Miguel Rivera, musician, mentor, translator, and teacher *“The Other Within is liberating. Deardorff frees us from the oppressive weight of the ideal, the perfect, and draws our gaze toward the borderlands where we catch glimpses of what has been outcast. The trail that Deardorff invites us to follow through the brambles of the psyche is not easy or comforting. His is a work of descent, an invitation into the depths of soul. It is here that we discover the medicine needed by our struggling world. We enter the hive of vulnerability, sorrow, uncertainty, and shame and recover our shared humanity. This book is a blessing to anyone who ever felt estranged from the shimmering world.” * Francis Weller, MFT, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow *“Deardorff’s masterpiece weaves a tempestuous spell that tosses us into shadowy depths where we might encounter that strange and strangely familiar one within who is, blessedly, an outcast from the life-destroying, conformist-consumer culture precisely because they understand their destined role in shaping the mysterious new world calling to us in the night. The Other Within is one of the few books I recommend to those learning to guide others on the descent to soul.” * Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., author of Soulcraft and Wild Mind *“I read the first sentence and was stopped in my tracks: ‘Denial is contagious and facts are an addictive substitute for truth.’ I told Daniel that I could spend my whole life on just this sentence. When Deardorff writes about walking among the ashes, it reminds us that there is a cost to thewisdom journey; there is a cost to freedom. This true and crooked path has gifts for us no matter the wound. With Trickster Wisdom through myths, he shows us the way deeper into ourselves and, by doing so, connects us more to each other.” * Quanita Roberson, coauthor of The InnerGround Railroad *“Daniel Deardorff searches through our mythic inheritance for the radical otherness that allows the human soul to find and handle the contradictions and oppositions inherent in all of life. With insight and wit, he finds the beauty within disfigurement, the worthiness of crooked things, and the essential genius hidden in the outcast. He offers an imagination of the transgressive, an inventive trickster intelligence that revalues the necessary otherness found both in the margins of culture and in the depths of the individual soul.” * Michael Meade, author of Awakening the Soul *“As I said to fellow wordsmith Michael Ventura just before I went on stage to play drums with Danny, ‘maybe Deardorff should be Jim Morrison’s replacement. He won’t be wearing leather pants, but his depth of soul is a match.’” * John Densmore, author of The Seekers, The Doors: Unhinged, and Riders on the Storm *“The storyteller casts spells. The spells that Daniel Deardorff wove spell out the dark myths of othering that rule the world we have created and that warps our relationship to one another and to the Earth. It is most often from the margin or from exile, from the othered, the deviant (physical, racial, ethnic, religious, sexual) that enlightenment and the prophet comes. Never have we more needed to hear the voices of our healer storytellers such as Danny tell and elucidate for us the healing myths.” * Rafael Jesús González, poet laureate of Berkeley, California *“The boundlessness of Daniel Deardorff’s soul, the ferocity and tenderness of his heart rang like a struck bell within each person who came upon his path. In him the divine was constantly working on itself, puzzling its favorite koan: In what sort of body, in what kind of creature, can I most exuberantly dance? This lucid book masquerades as a work of scholarship. Watch it waltz you over the cliff.” * David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal *“Because the important figure of the Trickster has eluded many in our modern culture, I urge you to read Daniel Deardorff on the subject. In this amazing study of the real and imagined ‘other,’ he has given a valuable roadmap to the profound regions of Story.” * Gioia Timpanelli, author of Sometimes the Soul *“At any moment when it seems like we have squandered the spiritual journey and feel like an outcast, we might just stumble into unexpected illumination. Deardorff’s The Other Within is a unique contribution to our understanding of the inner quest. It shows us how to see the extraordinary beauty in our brokenness.” * Jonathan Young, Ph.D., psychologist, founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives *“The Other Within challenges our understanding to grasp not only the conundrum of our mutually destructive impulses but the very roots of the human imagination. Deardorff’s book will reward the seeker with its kaleidoscopic range of knowledge to explain that the fearsome stranger approaching is our own visage in the mirror.” * Paul Kleyman, national coordinator of the Journalists Network on Generations *“Unflinching, sometimes uncomfortable, always brave and provocative, this is a book like no other.” * Ellen Dissanayake, author of Homo Aestheticus *“Daniel’s polio made him crooked; his heart made him true. We all can be true if we listen to Daniel, not only with our ears but also with our hearts.” * Dr. Richard L. Bruno, director of the International Centre for Polio Education *“The telling of myths is medicine for the soul. Danny is, thanks to his brilliant work in The Other Within, just an amazing medicine man the likes of whom will never be seen in this world again. If you had the opportunity to see and hear him, you know how blessed of a man he was and how he blessed all of us who had the privilege and honor to be in his presence. What a remarkable story weaver.” * John Lee, author of Odd One Out and The Flying Boy *Table of ContentsForeword: Thrown Out the Window by Robert SimmonsAcknowledgments Introduction: The City and the Forest by Robert BlyOverture Raven Whispers & Forbidden DoorsPreludeSongs of the Dog-Man Scapegoat: A Stricken Deer Aporia: Alexander’s Iron GateWasters, Rhymers, Minstrels & Other Vagabonds Fire on the Mountain Mandorla: The Bird-Masked Dog-Toothed DancersThe Bird with One Leg Part OneTrickster Wisdom The Crucible: In the Iron Cradle Kaleidoscope: The Ten Thousand Things Chymera: Mirror of the Beast Part TwoThe Leaping Consciousness Dragon Smoke: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Gnomonica: The Tree of Joyful DifficultyThe Lyre: Where the Callus Meets the String Coda Masquerade The Drum: For the Serpent & the BirdOf the Spirit & the Flesh The Singer: Throw Yourself Like Seed The Cauldron: And Each Is the Work of All Afterword: Danny’s Leap by Martin Shaw Glossary NotesSelect BibliographyIndex About the Authors and the Mythsinger Legacy Project

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Book SynopsisA graduate of both Harvard University and Case Western Reserve, Dr Peck served in the Army Medical Corps from 1963 to 1972 and had a private practice in psychiatry from 1972 to 1983. He also devoted much of his time and financial resources to the work of the Foundation for Community Encouragement, a nonprofit organization which he and his wife, Lily, helped found in 1984. His bestselling books include The Road Less Travelled and Beyond, A World Waiting to Be Born, and What Return Can I Make? Dr Peck died in 2005.Trade ReviewA brilliant self-help book, which I found genuinely inspiring... I love this book, it's my spiritual refuge and I'm certain everyone will find something to console them within these pages -- Boy George * Sunday Express *Magnificent... This is not just a book but a spontaneous act of generosity written by an author who leans towards the reader for the purpose of sharing something larger than himself * Washington Post *The granddaddy of self-help manuals and among the wiser of them * The Times *Sound advice on how to build a happy life * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisWritten by 40 of the most notable Jungian psychoanalysts — spanning 11 countries, and boasting decades of study and expertise — Jungian Psychoanalysis represents the pinnacle of Jungian thought. This handbook brings up to date the perspectives in the field of clinically applied analytical psychology, centering on five areas of interest: the fundamental goals of Jungian psychoanalysis, the methods of treatment used in pursuit of these goals, reflections on the analytic process, the training of future analysts, and special issues, such as working with trauma victims, handicapped patients, or children and adolescents, and emergent religious and spiritual issues. Discussing not only the history of Jungian analysis but its present and future applications, this book marks a major contribution to the worldwide study of psychoanalysis.

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Book SynopsisAdvanced Sandtray Therapy deepens mental health professionals' abilities to understand and apply sandtray therapy. Chapters show readers how to integrate clinical theory with sand work, resulting in more focused therapeutic work. Using practical basics as building blocks, the book takes a more detailed look at the ins and outs of work with attachment and trauma, showing therapists how to work through the sequence of treatment while also taking into account clients' trauma experiences and attachment issues. This text is a vital guide for any clinician interested in adding sandtray therapy to their existing work with clients as well as students in graduate programs for the mental health professions. Trade Review"From the opening poem, this book is an invitation into the mysteries of making healing worlds in the sand. Linda Homeyer and Marshall Lyles blend meticulous research about the efficacy and process of sandtray therapy with a poetic love affair with sand and miniatures, clients, and clinicians. Embracing therapists from many theoretical orientations who support a beautiful diversity of people, the authors provide solid ground for the advanced practice of this sacred healing art." —Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT, cofounder of Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind and author of The Heart of Trauma"This is a book that fills a huge gap regarding the deeper practice of sand therapy. Reading it I thought of three symbols: 1) A star for illumination of what is not visible; 2) an anchor, for grounding in theory and history; and 3) a compass, for a reliable guide to knowing where we are and finding our way when uncertain or lost. Linda Homeyer and Marshall Lyles are a great team and I applaud this wonderful contribution to our growth using this approach we love so dearly." —Eliana Gil, PhD, LMFT, RPT-S, ATR, founder of The Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education, LLC"Homeyer and Lyles talk about ‘digging deeper’ into the world of sandtray therapy and definitely deliver on that promise. In the sandtray therapy world, which is diverse in thought and application—and, sometimes not as theoretically and technically deep as need be—this is a refreshing addition. This book is a welcome companion to Homeyer and Sweeney’s text and deserves to be on the shelves of both practitioners and educators." —Daniel Sweeney, PhD, professor and director of the NW Center for Play Therapy Studies at George Fox University and coauthor of Sandtray Therapy: A Practical ManualTable of ContentsPart One: Digging Deeper into Sandtray Therapy Essentials 1. History in the Making: Past and Present 2. Validating the World 3. Deeper Exploration of Sand Tray Materials 4. Importance of Clinical Theory and Integrating Developmental Theories 5. Person-of-the-Therapist and Use of the Protocol Part Two: Digging Deeper into Clinical Application 6. Neurodiversity in the Sand Tray 7. Attachment in the Sand Tray 8. Trauma in the Sand Tray 9. Resilience in the Sand Tray. Closing Moments. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This important new series of volumes will be of interest not only to Jung scholars, but also to the wider public as so much of his diagnosis still stands today." * Paradigm Explorer *

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Book SynopsisThis is the essential fully illustrated biography of Carl Jung - one of the world's most influential thinkers and a founding father of psychology. It offers a unique insight into Jung's life and work, featuring generous excerpts from his writings and letters, and reveals Jung as seen by those who knew him best, including his friend and mentor Freud, his patients, and the two women in his life, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff. The words of Jung himself and those who shared his work and private life are connected by Claire Dunne's lively and accessible commentary. The evocative illustrations include colour reproductions of Jung's paintings and photographs of Jung and his associates, as well as superb artwork by other artists both ancient and contemporary that reflects Jung's teachings. Jung emerges as a healer whose skills arose from having first attended to the wounds in his own soul.Trade Review"Most appealing and complete presentation of Jung to the general reader since Man and His Symbols...would make a popular text book, perfect for the undergraduate."--Dr. John Beebe, President, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco "Claire Dunn has managed, in this beautiful book, to capture the essential features of Jung's life and its meaning as a solid achievement." --Dr. Murray Stein, Jungian analyst "Excellent, the best [biography of Jung] yet!" --Robert A. Johnson, Jungian analyst and author

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Book SynopsisBeyond the Narrow Life: A Guide to Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration presents a framework for understanding and experiencing psychedelic-assisted therapy including foundational therapeutic approaches, the psychospiritual aspects of the psychedelic journey, and integration of the insights gained.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the NAAP 2019 Gradiva Award!Winner of the IAJS Book Award for Best Book published in 2019!Marian Dunleaâs BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach provides a theoretical and practical guide for working with early developmental trauma. This interdisciplinary approach explores the interconnection of body, mind and psyche, offering a masterful tool for restoring balance and healing developmental trauma. BodyDreaming is a somatically focused therapeutic method, drawing on the findings of neuroscience, analytical psychology, attachment theory and trauma therapy. In Part I, Dunlea defines BodyDreaming and its origins, placing it in the context of a dysregulated contemporary world. Part II explains how the brain works in relation to the BodyDreaming approach: providing an accessible outline of neuroscientific theory, structures and neuroanatomy in attunement, affect regulation, attachment patterns, transference and countertransference, and the resolution of trauma throughout the body. In Part III, through detailed transcripts from sessions with clients, Dunlea demonstrates the positive impact of BodyDreaming on attachment patterns and developmental trauma. This somatic approach complements and enhances psychobiological, developmental and psychoanalytic interventions. BodyDreaming restores balance to a dysregulated psyche and nervous system that activates our innate capacity for healing, changing our default response of fight, flight or freeze and creating new neural pathways. Dunleaâs emphasis on attunement to build a restorative relationship with the sensing body creates a core sense of self, providing a secure base for healing developmental trauma. Innovative and practical, and with a foreword by Donald E. Kalsched, BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach will be essential reading for psychotherapists, analytical psychologists and therapists with a Jungian background, arts therapists, dance and movement therapists, and body workers interested in learning how to work with both body and psyche in their practices. Trade Review"BodyDreaming brings together the analytic legacy of Carl Jung with developments in the fields of Body Oriented Psychotherapy. It shows that we remain, elusively, disconnected from our dreams (and inner images), until we can embody them through interoceptive awareness. This transformative process, catalyzed through connection to the Living, Sensing, Knowing Body, bridges the dream world to here-and-now experience. In this way, we nourish the deep Self, the True Self, and our connection to inner aliveness and vitality. I believe that this book contributes to a rich dialogue between analytic and experiential therapies; a dialogue that will certainly enhance both." - Peter A. Levine, author of Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma and In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness"We live at a time when body and psyche are both in a traumatized state; where we are not in a relationship with nature, soul or body but dissociated from all three. The great imperative of our time is reconnection and, through this mysterious inner alchemical process, moving to a more developed, evolved and individuated state of consciousness. Profoundly steeped in Jung’s approach to the psyche as well as other methodologies – particularly the work of Marion Woodman and Donald Kalsched – this inspiring book shows us how great a transformation can be wrought through the medium of BodyDreaming, approaching the client with the utmost reverence, gentleness and awareness of the fragility of psychic processes as well as the relationship between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Using the metaphor of the light of the rising sun at the Winter Solstice touching the far end of the narrow passage at Newgrange temple in Ireland, Marian shows us how, through reconnection with our heart and the dawning of insight, we can become illumined, healed and restored to wholeness." - Anne Baring, Ph.D.; author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul"We live at a time when body and psyche are both in a traumatized state; where we are not in a relationship with nature, soul or body but dissociated from all three. The great imperative of our time is reconnection and moving to a more developed, evolved and individuated state of consciousness. Profoundly steeped in Jung’s approach to the psyche as well as other methodologies (particularly the work of Marion Woodman, Donald Kalsched, Peter Levine, and Allan Schore), this inspiring book shows us how great a transformation can be wrought through the medium of BodyDreaming. Marian Dunlea approaches the client with the utmost reverence, gentleness and awareness of the fragility of psychic processes and their connection to neural pathways and nervous system responses.Dunlea shows us how, through reconnection with our heart and the dawning of insight, we can become illumined, healed and restored to wholeness." - Anne Baring PhD, author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul"BodyDreaming, Marian Dunlea’s new and unique approach, arrives as a breath of fresh air. It provides us not only with a new way to think about our work theoretically, but with new practical ways of perceiving and attending to how our patients actually experience our interventions in the body. It represents a creative synthesis of new findings in the fields of affective neuroscience, attachment theory, infant observation, and body-sensitive approaches to therapy, as they apply to somatically informed psychotherapeutic work with trauma, dissociation, and dreams. Marian Dunlea’s BodyDreaming provides a way of getting 'underneath' the seemingly intractable defenses and resistances that our traumatized patients present to us, without our having to forsake the mytho-poetic imagination and its symbolic riches found in dreams, active imagination and the other products of the unconscious.The extensive verbatim write-ups of actual clinical vignettes in the text demonstrate Marian’s exquisite attunement to the felt experience reported by her clients. For all of us seeking a more relevant and effective way of working, these verbatim accounts are illuminating to read. Doing so has already improved my practice as an analyst." - Donald E. Kalsched, PhD, Santa Fe, New Mexico"BodyDreaming brings together the analytic legacy of Carl Jung with developments in the fields of Body Oriented Psychotherapy. It shows that we remain, elusively, disconnected from our dreams (and inner images), until we can embody them through interoceptive awareness. This transformative process, catalyzed through connection to the Living, Sensing, Knowing Body, bridges the dream world to here-and-now experience. In this way, we nourish the deep Self, the True Self, and our connection to inner aliveness and vitality. I believe that this book contributes to a rich dialogue between analytic and experiential therapies; a dialogue that will certainly enhance both." - Peter A. Levine, author of Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma and In an Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness"In this highly readable book, Marian Dunlea shows us the seamless constant unconscious conversation between the body and the mind. Every thought we think is companioned by a physical response. ‘When you do not know what matters most to you that, then, can become the matter with you.’ It is essential to understand that trauma becomes an emotional pattern and/or a symptom that can unconsciously govern your life perspective and your self-esteem. The talking cure alone does not free the body from the emotional responses that it carries. The body cannot and does not lie.Dunlea offers both the practitioner and the participant the vital keys to unlocking this deeply healing truth." - Paula M. Reeves, PhD, psychotherapist and author of Women's Intuition: Unlocking the Wisdom of the Body and Heart Sense: Unlocking Your Highest Purpose and Deepest DesiresTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Foreword by E. Donald Kalsched; Credits and Permissions; Part I: Setting the Scene; A Note to the Reader: How This Book Works; Introducing BodyDreaming; Why This Book Now: The Origins of BodyDreaming; Invitation to the Reader to Engage Experientially with the Text; The Black Pearl; Part II: Neuroscientific Background; Chapter One: How the Brain Works : A Brief Outline of the Neuroscientific Theory That Informs BodyDreaming; Part III: BodyDreaming in Clinical Practice; Chapter Two: Orienting, Regulating, Resourcing: “I may be able to find some peace here”; Chapter Three: Working the Threshold: “Slowly, slowly . . . 1%” ; Chapter Four: Attunement: Learned Secure Attachment in the Body: “I’m yielding to it”; Chapter Five: Working with Dissociative and Disoriented Attachment Patterns (1): “The child fell off the chair”; Chapter Six: Working with Dissociative and Disoriented Attachment Patterns (2): “It’s all about trusting your gut”; Chapter Seven: Working with Numbness, Shut-down, Freeze: “Bushes Don’t Have Panic Attacks”; Chapter Eight: The Matter of Self-Regulation: “The Sun is coming out of her face”; Chapter Nine: Intimations of the Numinous: “It feels like a visitation from the lady in red in here” ; Conclusion: “Let your hands touch something that makes your eyes smile”; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Immensely stimulating and full of unexpected turns of thought, vivid illustrations, and intriguing arcane knowledge. This meticulously edited book will be a lasting resource for anyone studying Jung academically, as part of therapeutic training, or for general interest."—Roderick Main, University of Essex"An important contribution to the scholarship on Jung. These lectures are fascinating and revealing."—Robert S. Westman, University of California, San Diego

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This important new series of volumes will be of interest not only to Jung scholars, but also to the wider public as so much of his diagnosis still stands today." * Paradigm Explorer *

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Book SynopsisThis engaging and accessible textbook introduces psychodynamic theory in a way that helps readers better understand complex theories and how these can enrich their practice. Five chapters on classic theorists explore their life stories and the ideas, and are illustrated with captivating case studies. Contemporary developments relating to psychodynamic theory are explored, such as the links with neurobiology and how attachment shapes a baby's brain, and how to make sense of the anxieties contained in the organisations of hospitals and day care nurseries. It also examines psychodynamic evidence based theory and practiceAn insightful introduction to core psychodynamic theory, this refreshingly clear book is invaluable reading for all students, trainees and practitioners in counselling and psychotherapy, and of interest to those studying and working in the fields of nursing, social work and counselling psychology.Table of ContentsThe Value of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Freud: Where it all Started Klein: Mothers and Babies Winnicott: Holding Within Boundaries Bion: Knowing and Not Knowing Bowlby: Attachment and Separation Legacies I: From Freud to Feminism Legacies II: Developments in Attachment Practice

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Book SynopsisSTEPHEN FROSH Pro-Vice-Master and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Hate and the 'Jewish Science': Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 2005), For and Against Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2006), After Words (Palgrave, 2002) and The Politics of Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 1999). His most recent books are Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic (Palgrave, 2010) and Feelings (Routledge, 2011).Trade Review'This most impressive book should be welcomed not only by all coming new to the detailed study of psychoanalysis but also by experienced clinicians and trainees from many psychotherapeutic approaches. Frosh, in just over 200 pages, covers a vast topic clearly and accessibly, drawing on a deep and wide-ranging scholarship.' - Therapy Today 'Extremely accessible and stunningly erudite. Frosh has an uncanny capacity to pick out the most important contributions in the history of psychoanalysis.' - Professor Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London, UK 'An extraordinary book that more than lives up to its billing. It is set to become the standard textbook for the wide-ranging courses in psychoanalytic theory that are now taught throughout the Anglophone world.' - Sander Gilman, Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University, US 'So much has been written about psychoanalysis, it is difficult to produce something new, fresh and engaging - but Stephen Frosh has done just that.' - Judith Fewell, Honorary Fellow, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Edinburgh University, UK 'A highly readable introduction to a complex subject that will be of interest to all students of psychology and trainees in the 'talking therapies'. Frosh interrogates psychoanalysis with authority, offering not only the basics of the subject but a mature understanding based on years of experience.' - Ivan Ward, Deputy Director and Head of Learning, Freud Museum, UKTable of ContentsPART I: FREUDIAN THEORY The Appeal of Psychoanalysis A Family History of Psychoanalysis What Freud was Trying to Do The Freudian Unconscious Sex, Aggression, Life and death Repression and Other Defences The Structure of the Mind: Id, Ego, Superego Oedipus, Masculinity, Femininity Psychopathology: What Makes Us Sad (and Mad) PART II: DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Psychoanalysts After Freud Attachment and Mentalisation The Principles of Object Relations Theory Mourning, Melancholia, Depression and Loss The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Other Extremes Projection and Projective Identification Lacanian Psychoanalysis Interpretation and Transference Psychotherapeutic Relationships PART III: WIDER APPLICATIONS Psychoanalysis, Film and Literature Politics and Society Conclusion Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisA short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain''s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness.What we find of interest may tell us more than we think...''Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship between the two) . . .''Based on three connected talks on the subject of attention, this pocket-sized book is a quirky and memorable introduction to the concept of our attention - how we spend it, and what it might tell us about ourselves. From Britain''s pre-eminent psychoanalyst, this is an essential new addition to the Adam Phillips canon.''The best living essayist writing in English'' - John GrayTrade ReviewThe best living essayist writing in EnglishThe Martin Amis of British psychoanalysis . . . brilliantly amusing and often highly unsettling * The Times *One of those writers whom it is a pleasure simply to hear think * Sunday Telegraph *Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *Adam Phillips is that rarest of phenomena, a trained clinician who is also a sublime writerPlayfully digressive style... He is the finest living decipherer of affective life [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The theme of the demonic feminine which has haunted men from time immemorial has been limited in Andriano's very fine study of Gothic fiction. He poses several questions at the outset with regard to the erotic and deadly nature of such forces and to their frequent appearances in literature. He answers these straightforwardly and cogently in this book.”—Bettina Knapp,Hunter College

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Book SynopsisIn The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race, Fanny Brewster revisits and examines Jungâs classical writing on the theory of complexes, relating it directly to race in modern society. In this groundbreaking exploration, Brewster deepens Jungâs minimalist writing regarding the cultural complexes of American blacks and whites by identifying and re-defining a psychological complex related to ethnicity. Original and insightful, this book provides a close reading of Jungâs complexes theory with an Africanist perspective on raciality and white/black racial relationships. Brewster explores how racial complexes influence personality development, cultural behavior and social and political status, and how they impact contemporary American racial relations. She also investigates aspects of the racial complex including archetypal shadow as core, constellations and their expression, and cultural trauma in the African diaspora. The book concludes with a discussion of racial complexes as a continuous psychological state and how to move towards personal, cultural and collective healing. Analyzing Jungâs work with a renewed lens, and providing fresh comparisons to other literature and films, including Get Out, Brewster extends Jungâs work to become more inclusive of culture and ethnicity, addressing issues which have been left previously unexamined in psychoanalytic thought. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, this book will be of great importance to academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, sociology, politics, history of race, African American studies and African diaspora studies. As this book discusses Jungâs complexes theory in a new light, it will be of immense interest to Jungian analysts and analytical psychologists in practice and in training.Trade Review"Fanny Brewster introduces the construct of the Racial complex into the post Jungian and Postmodern lexicon and discourse in Analytical theory, training and clinical praxis. In so doing, she opens portals through which the light of consciousness emerges and illuminates the shadowed prism of racism and the predicate social construction of the race fiction, living well within and external to Jungian communities. In this seminal book Fanny Brewster contributes to the individuation of Analytical psychology into the 21st century, from her lived personal and professional experience. The individuation of Analytical psychology requires interrogation of the archetype, shadow and complexes at the core of racism. This she does from the Africa-centric perspective. The Racial complex is a refinement and ethnic differentiation in the human experience of the American cultural complex, if not the broader Western cultural complex. The work is important to treatment of the infectious disease that is the psychopathology of racism. It is essential to the relevance of Analytical psychology in its efforts to heal the wounded soul of the nation. There are bodies on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean. There is blood on the landscape and the hands of American cultural history and psychology. Reparations are needed for all to be made whole. Jung suggests that the first stage of treatment is "confession". This new book invites us to the ‘confessional’ for this difficult and necessary task." - Alan G. Vaughan, Ph.D., JD, Jungian analyst, author of The African Diaspora: Post Modern Views of Jung and Analytical Psychology in Cultural Context (Routledge)"Dr. Brewster, an Africanist and Jungian analyst, is the most lyrical in her book, The Racial Complex, when she introduces the reader to her world of color vision; ‘brown pecans with streaks of black that have fallen’ into her grandfather’s yard, the bold passionate hue of ‘persimmon fruit hanging from trees,’ and ‘concord grapes lazing across the arbor.’ In her early years, seamless color surrounded by a world of ‘brown people,’ in all ‘shades of rich chocolate,’ contain her, and her comprehension of the world. However, when she comes of age, excursions downtown, introduce a new color, ‘white,’ and color becomes ‘colored.’ The seamlessness of her consciousness is permanently partitioned by segregation, hierarchical categories, worth and worthlessness, same and other. It is this experienced ‘tear’ in the fabric of Brewster’s consciousness that appears to serve as the creative and energetic core of her book, The Racial Complex. According to Brewster a ‘racial complex’ is formed as a result of multi-generational trauma, and the absorption of an affective field of associated fears, dangers and negative meanings attached to skin color. This is trauma defined as having the impact to divide one’s psyche, and, the potential to heal it. The ‘racial complex’ opens a field in psyche that contains symbolic processes of representation that can widen consciousness retrieving parts lost. In this context, it serves as a space holder that operates at the juncture of the felt presence of the sense of loss of wholeness. It initiates the opening for the return of personal autonomy and agency and the re-appearance in consciousness of past assaults and previously unbearable memories. It is in the broadening of the racial complex to include the healing potential included in the definition of all complexes, that defines Brewster’s important contribution to Jungian psychology, and its inspiration for enlarging Jungian theory to include the social-political context out of which we are all trying to reclaim ourselves." —Joan Golden-Alexis PhD, clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst "This book is an appreciation for and extension of Jung’s theory about the complexes, specifically related to the concept and experience of race, and asserts a psychological and cultural dynamic that can be termed: ‘the racial complex.’ In writing it, Brewster joins the quickening crescendo of knowledgeable individuals critiquing the colonialist viewpoint that delineates certain cultures and individuals as being so-called ‘primitives’ versus those more ‘civilized’ by writing from the perspective of the ‘Other.’ Embracing the ‘Other’ from an Africanist perspective joined with the lens of a Jungian scholar, Brewster draws out this dualistic viewpoint to its logical conclusion within the contextual parameters of Jungian thought. What she posits is an opportunity for fruitful dialogue for what has often been a polarizing topic in the clinic, academia, and other contexts.Brewster reminds each of us that there is only one human race. Her book is bold in its suggestion that we strive to be more conscious by holding the tension of the opposites that comprise a ‘racial complex.’ The invitation is for an engaged dialogue and re-evaluation that supports an emergence of a new conscious experience in relation to the psyche and to that of being human. The resultant conscious attitude could go a long way toward healing the race- based suffering that affects us all. This is an honest and well-informed book that is of value for the individual and the professional." - Marybeth Carter, PhD"Carl Jung’s theory of complexes is an integral part of his contribution to our understanding of the psyche and the vast domain of our personal and collective unconscious. He made brief mention of a black and a white racial complex. While it would be easy to dismiss his idea of racial complexes as rooted in his own racism, Fanny Brewster brings vast experience, scholarship, wisdom and Africanist cultural sophistication to this idea. After an insightful and very educative summary of Jung’s ideas of complexes, she both deconstructs and furthers his work to explore a racial complex that when explored and enriched can address transgenerational as well as future possibilities of racial identities. In her writing, the flaws in Jung’s thinking become a rich vein of exploration; a psychic adventure which fills the reader with both the trepidation and rewards that greet those brave enough to venture into their own shadow complexes. Fanny’s work encompasses the intergenerational dimension of complexes and the prospect of futures taking shape in the present. The racial complex refers to that "other" who lives under our skin." - William Allured, Ph.D., Brookhaven Institute, USA"Fanny Brewster enters into highly charged territory bringing the unconscious dynamics of race to the surface with all its concomitant fear and confusion, violence and grief. She helps us understand how our early experiences weave inexorably into a view of race that structures our thoughts, feelings and actions which we then take to be ‘the truth’ but is merely a remnant of repetitive intensities glued together by an archaic structure – a violent god with no concern for the costs of human suffering. By naming and differentiating the essential factors of multi-generational suffering woven into American society she brings forward the possibility of separating us from our unconscious racial assumptions. Dr. Brewster expects us to be uncomfortable as we read her work and that discomfort tells us we’re breaking new ground. She insists that we mine the idea of Race for every level of meaning, no matter how painful – she holds our feet to the fire understanding that only by facing the unfaceable can we grow as individuals and as a society. With her insights strongly in hand we may yet forge a new paradigm of human relations where differences are no longer weaponized.Dr. Brewster’s book is certainly a milestone in Jungian literature, addressing a difficult and inadequately explored area of Jung’s work regarding indigenous peoples and American people of color." - Joseph R. Lee, Jungian analyst; President of The Philadelphia Society of Jungian Analysts"Within the social construct of race, the first language we learn is the language of silence, but this book breaks that silence. Jung's idea of the racial complex, like many other ideas that point us towards the impact of race on our collective psyches, has been often overlooked or relegated to being of marginal interest. Fanny Brewster, however, expertly explores Jung's racial complex to both reveal what has been hiding in plain sight and as a hopeful way forward that attends to the hurt of racism and our collective healing." - Eugene Ellis, MA, Dip, IATE. PSA accredited, UKCP registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist; Director of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network"Fanny Brewster’s The Racial Complex is a major contribution to the understanding of the most corrosive and destructive cultural complex in American history that continues to be an unending source of great suffering in America today. As the study of cultural complexes around the world has shown, their potency and toxicity are amplified exponentially by the accumulated effects of recurring trauma that are passed on from generation to generation." - Thomas Singer, MD, co-editor of The Cultural Complex and other books on Cultural Complexes in Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America and Southeast AsiaTable of ContentsPreface by Samuel Kimbles; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Nature of Complexes; Chapter 2: The Racial Complex; Chapter 3: Childhood: The Shaping of Psychological Complexes; Chapter 4: A Cultural Constellation; Chapter 5: Archetype, Shadow, Complex; Chapter 6: Culture and Race; Chapter 7: Cultural Trauma and the Racial Complex; Chapter 8: Transference and Countertransference; Chapter 9: Emergence From Grievance to Grief: The Literary Arts; Chapter 10: American Cinema: Get Out; Chapter 11:The Paradox of Race and Racism; Chapter 12: Healing Cultural and Racial Trauma; Chapter 13: Closing Reflections; Index.

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