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Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives

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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 ...

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.

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

An embarrassingly superficial series of essays which show little knowledge of psychopathology and less of the attempts (and at least the attempts are important) to map behavior empirically and scientifically. The topics are out of line with mainstream psychiatric and psychological theory. The essays consist, many of them, of bold and even incorrect assertions about clinical diagnostic criteria. As you read this book, ask yourself this: Am I being pushed to the phone book to find myself a Jungist analyist to whom I can start paying money? How badly shall I wish to consult someone trained in a system in which women patients (I refer here to Dr Jung himself) were, by the historical record, used as sexual partners for the great master? And are we really, *really*, to take seriously a school of psychological thought which devotes serious attention to UFOs? Please. This stuff is an insult to the many fine practitioners of integrity who actually know personality and psychopathology because they have taken the time to learn it someplace besides the New Age section of the local pop book store.

These essays are pop psychology at its worst. Most of the authors simply generalize at tiresome length about diagnostic categories and criteria which don't have any scientific or medical justification. The editing is particularly sloppy. The essays are inconsistent. Some of them are wordy beyond belief. All of them are self congratulatory collections of assertions.

I could not help the sense that these essays are all calling cards trying to drum up business for Jungist analysts and therapists.