Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
About the Book Series
Series Advisor: Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, Essex University, UK.
The Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies series features research-focused volumes involving qualitative and quantitative research, historical/archival research, theoretical developments, heuristic research, grounded theory, narrative approaches, collaborative research, practitioner-led research, and self-study. The series also includes focused works by clinical practitioners, and provides new research informed explorations of the work of C.G. Jung that will appeal to researchers, academics, and scholars alike.
The Bollingen Tower: Constructing a Jungian Sense of Place
1st Edition
By Martin Gledhill
October 14, 2025
Offering a novel conceptual methodology where Jungian psychology is used to analyse Jung’s own architecture, this book offers an innovative reading of Jung’s Bollingen Tower in order to explore a Jungian sense of place, situating it within a wider examination of the psychic places that influenced ...
Jung, Dante, and the Making of the Red Book: Of Fire and Form
1st Edition
By Tommaso Priviero
December 19, 2024
This book explores the genesis of the Red Book (or Liber Novus), through the lens of Jung’s lifelong confrontation with Dante and, in doing so, provides the first-ever thorough comparative analysis of the intertextual and symbolical correspondences between Liber Novus and the Commedia. Starting ...
Jung and Twentieth Century Psychological Astrology: Perspectives on Magic, Psychology and Culture
1st Edition
By Laura Andrikopoulos
October 11, 2024
Using the works and theories of Carl Gustav Jung and the astrologers Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, this volume provides a cultural history of psychological astrology in the twentieth century, demonstrating the prevalence of ‘magic’ in modern culture through its presence in astrology. ...
Jung’s Reception of Picasso and Abstract Art
1st Edition
By Lucinda Hill
January 29, 2024
This book explores the nature of Jung’s understanding of modern art, in particular his reception to the work of Picasso and his striking prejudice shown in his controversial essay of 1932. Offering an important contribution towards understanding Jung’s attitudes towards Picasso and modern art, the...
The Paradoxical Meeting of Depth Psychology and Physics: Reflections on the Unification of Psyche and Matter
1st Edition
By Robert S. Matthews
January 29, 2024
This book unites the worlds of physics and depth psychology through analysis of carefully selected existing and new dream materials. Their interpretation by Matthews provides fertile ground for the unifying of the extreme opposites of psyche and matter and forms a continuation of the deep dialogue ...
Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo: Cultural Complexes and the Redemptive Power of the Abjected Feminine
1st Edition
By Dennis Pottenger, Rebecca Pottenger
January 09, 2023
Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers a depth psychological analysis of the art and life of Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist painter. The book uses Varo’s paintings in a revolutionary way: to critique the patriarchal underpinnings of Jungian psychology, alchemy, and Surrealism, illuminating ...
Psychogeotherapy: Revisioning Therapeutic Space
1st Edition
By Martyna Chrześcijańska
August 01, 2022
Psychogeotherapy offers a critical exploration of the roles played by ideas of space and containment in psychotherapy. Employing approaches from psychogeography with a focus on the praxis of ‘aimless walking’, it explores alternate models of therapeutic space and what the author terms ‘...
Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method: Bridging the Divide
1st Edition
By Laner Cassar
April 29, 2022
Jung's Technique of Active Imagination and Desoille's Directed Waking Dream Method brings together Carl Jung’s active imagination and Robert Desoille’s "rêve éveillé dirigé/directed waking dream" method (RED). It studies the historical development of these approaches in Central Europe in the first ...
Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences: Primordial Mental Activity and Archetypal Constellations
1st Edition
By Giselle Manica
April 29, 2022
Symbolic Mental Representations in Arts and Mystical Experiences explains how the individual’s conceptualization of reality is dependent on the development of their brain, body structure, and the experiences that are physiologically confronted, acted, or observed via learning and/or simulation, ...
The Cartesian Split: A Hidden Myth
1st Edition
By Brandon D. Short
April 29, 2022
The Cartesian Split examines the phenomenon of Cartesian influence as a psychological complex in the Jungian tradition. It explores the full legacy of Cartesian rationality in its emphasis on abstract thinking and masculinisation of thought, often perceived in a negative light, despite the ...
Jung and Kierkegaard: Researching a Kindred Spirit in the Shadows
1st Edition
By Amy Cook
January 17, 2019
Jung and Kierkegaard identifies authenticity, suffering and self-deception as the three key themes that connect the work of Carl Jung and Søren Kierkegaard. There is, in the thinking of these pioneering psychologists of the human condition, a fundamental belief in the healing potential of a ...
A Japanese Jungian Perspective on Mental Health and Culture: Wandering madness
1st Edition
By Iwao Akita
September 10, 2018
A Japanese Jungian Perspective on Mental Health and Culture: Wandering Madness explores differences between Western and Japanese models of mental health. It argues that while the advent of modern mental health has brought about seminal changes in our understanding of and relationship to those ...