Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives [Paperback]

Andrew Samuels (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0898624738 | ISBN-13: 978-0898624731 | Publication Date: March 6, 1992

This volume is an outstanding collection of papers written by Jungian analysts from different schools of analytical psychology on various aspects of psychopathology. The subjects covered include depression, anorexia, schizoid personality, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, mania, psychosis, paranoia, masochism, fetishism, transvestism, perversion, marital dysfunction, survivor syndrome, and old age.
The contributors, who include some of the most creative and distinguished clinicians in the Jungian world today, are: B. Bosnack, Gustav Dreifuss, Alan Edwards, Michael Ford Ham, C. T. Frey-Wehrlin, Rosemary Gordon, Judith Hubback, Peer Hultberg, Mario Jacoby, Thomas Kirsch, F. Langegger, Rushi Ledermann, Fred Plaut, Joseph Redfearn, Ch. Robinson, Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Eva Seligman, Anthony Storr, Mary Williams, and Luigi Zoja.
The book is intended to appeal beyond the Jungian community, and the editor's introductory remarks which precede each paper highlight (and where necessary explain) concepts and attitudes that seem special to analytical psychology. In this way, psychoanalytically and eclectically oriented practitioners can make full use of the book.

Editorial Reviews

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"This collection of excellent essays is the work of twenty outstanding Jungian analysts from different schools of analytic psychology. The chapters communicate and clarify some of Jung's more difficult concepts...A resource for practitioners, it may also be of great interest to students and the educated layperson...The reader will find this book filled with vigorous and vital thoughts..." --Jeanne Ma, New Ideas in Psychology

``This is a book that everyone seriously interested in psychopathology (should) have on their shelves, for reference to illuminate clinical problems as they arise.' --British Journal of Medical Psychology

``[This volume] shows how much we can learn from Jungian and post-Jungian formulations. We are helped by their acceptance and development of symbolic values. They alert us to the possibility of future potentialities and syntheses. Arcane concepts which previously bemused us are unveiled and their mysteries illuminated." --British Journal of Psychiatry

``Andrew Samuels' intention to make Jung familiar to a wider public, perhaps particularly to psychotherapists of other analytic schools, is amply supported by this book....It is to be recommended to anyone interested in realizing how comprehensive a contribution Jung made and how contemporary Jungians are developing their work.' --Free Associations

``There is no doubt that these papers offer significant insights about the work with difficult patients that everyone practicing psychoanalysis is concerned with. There are real additions to our clinical knowledge in this book...' --Journal of Analytic Psychology

``With a useful introduction by Andrew Samuels, this volume attests to the fact that contemporary Jungian scholarship is alive and well.' --Psychoanalytic Books

About the Author

Andrew Samuels is the author of many books including The Plural Psyche, Jung and the Post-Jungians, and The Father: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives. He is a training analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology in London, where he is in private practice. He also lectures widely in the United States and Europe.

Product Details

• Paperback: 355 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press (March 6, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898624738
• ISBN-13: 978-0898624731
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,912,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A useful introduction: most definitely not pop psychology, May 20, 2009

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Aggeliki Skamvetsaki "Philomel" (Vrilissia, Athens Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives (Library of analytical psychology) (Paperback)

A follow-on to S. Yakimenko's insightful comment: the reviews below are indeed shockingly misleading, and seem to come from people with limited if any familiarity with the key concepts of analytical psychology. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I do wonder where their authors find the cheek to be so bigoted towards concepts and approaches they clearly ignore. Jungian psychology has made incredible inroads towards our understanding of the unconscious mind over the last century or so, and its consideration alongside other psychological / psychotherapeutic approaches can only benefit the latter. This book is a respectable introduction to recent Jungian developments in the direction of psychopathology: if interested, then savor its essays to form your own unbiased opinion - but please do not be prevented from even considering it based on reviewers who prefer to hide their ignorance about soul by discrediting people rather than taking time to formulate arguments ...

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The reviewers below are ignorant., January 7, 2006

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S. Yakimenko "Archetype Sergei" (sacramento, ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives (Paperback)

This is collection of essays by respected analysts, and the reviewers below have never read them. What these reviewers don't know is that most of these anlalysts took the pains to familiarize themselves with traditional psychoanalysis and the more modern object-relations school. Yes, at times Jung was sexist and the post-jungians, many of which are women, are aware of that fact. By the way, Jungian analysis is incredibly down to earth. And for God's sake, stop attacking Jung: we know already. Also try James Hillman(Myth of Analysis, Re-visioning Psychology)and Naomi Goldenberg (Ressurection of the Body) with their strong criticism of Jung and Jungians.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book, December 7, 2011

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This review is from: Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives (Library of analytical psychology) (Kindle Edition)

This is a very good clinical-junguian book. Its is great to finally have the chance to buy books like this in a kindle format