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Encounters With the Soul: Active Imagination As Developed by C.G. Jung

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Since there are no reviews of this book as yet, I will give you a few comments, having just finished reading Barbara Hannah's good book. If you are looking at this text, you probably already know that Ms. Hannah was a Jungian analyst who worked directly with Jung and who wrote a particularly interesting biography of her teacher as well.
I have posted a Table of Contents as this will be very valuable.
Well, here goes: This is not a "how to do active imagination" book, but rather a number of case studies, so it will be best that the reader be somewhat familiar with Jungian psychology before taking up this work. It will be good to know that half the book deals with a single case of incest - the Case of Anna Marjula - a famous concert pianist who began her work at Zurich in her 50's and continued into her 90's. She never married but was highly imaginative, so was able to verbalize her inner visions that worked toward a cure of sorts. (She wrote her own book of her active imagination conversations as well.) If you are well-versed in Jungian psychology, you will find her case as well as others described here to be fascinating and insightful. Jung on Active Imagination