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Book SynopsisWhat can Jungian psychology contribute to understanding children and childhood?
Childhood Re-imagined considers Carl Jung''s psychological approach to childhood and argues that his symbolic view deserves a place between the more traditional scientific and social-constructionist views of development. Divided into four sections this book covers:
- Jung on development
- theoretical and methodological discussion
- the Developmental School of analytical psychology
- towards a Jungian developmental psychology.
This book discusses how Jung''s view of development in terms of individuation is relevant to child development, particularly the notion of regression and Jung''s distinction between the child archetype and the actual child. It shows how Jung''s understanding of the historically controversial notion of recapitulation differs from that of other psychologists of his time and aligns him with contemporary, post-modern critiques of dev
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"Shiho Main has given us the most important Jungian work on childhood in recent years. Unlike other writers she manages to bridge the 'developmental' and the symbolic archetypal and bring the concept of the child up-to-date socially and politically. Seldom is Jungian writing so comprehensive and informing. This is essential reading for psychotherapists, psychologists, trainees and everyone concerned with what 'childhood' means in our time." - Christopher Hauke, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Author of Jung and the Postmodern and Human Being Human, Culture and the Soul.
Table of ContentsPart I: Jung on Development. Psychological Development. Regression. Symbolic Child Psychology. Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Discussions on Development. ‘Recapitulation’ and ‘Development’ in Analytical Psychology. Methodological Issues in Developmental Psychology and Analytical Psychology. Part III: The Developmental School of Analytical Psychology. Jung, Fordham, and the ‘Developmental School’. The Children’s Rights Movement and Fordham’s Work with Children. Part IV: Towards a Jungian Developmental Psychology. Jung as a Qualitative Psychologist. Conclusion.
