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.
Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience
1st Edition
By Jonathan Erickson
June 30, 2021
Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience offers a comprehensive treatment of the human imagination by integrating the rich discourse on imagination in the humanities with modern neuroscientific research. This book is the first to offer an integrated ...
The Self and the Quintessence: A Jungian Perspective
1st Edition
By Christine Driver
December 18, 2020
The Self and the Quintessence explores Jung’s work on number symbolism and the alchemical journey and considers how they act as metaphors underpinning theories about the development of the self and individuation. It goes on to consider the implications of these dynamics in terms of the symbol of ...
Transcendent Writers in Stephen King's Fiction: A Post-Jungian Analysis of the Puer Aeternus
1st Edition
By Joeri Pacolet
September 30, 2020
Transcendent Writers in Stephen King’s Fiction combines a post-Jungian critical perspective of the puer aeternus. Offering new insight into King’s work, it provides reconceptualisation of the eternal youth to develop a new theory: the concept of the transcendent writer. Combining recent Jungian and...
Jung’s Psychoid Concept Contextualised
1st Edition
By Ann Addison
June 30, 2020
Jung’s Psychoid Concept Contextualised investigates the body-mind question from a clinical Jungian standpoint and establishes a contextual topography for Jung’s psychoid concept, insofar as it relates to a deeply unconscious realm that is neither solely physiological nor psychological. Seen as a ...
Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts: Applying Jungian Concepts to Mass Visions of the Virgin Mary
1st Edition
By Valeria Céspedes Musso
February 25, 2020
Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts provides an analysis of collective phenomena, specifically mass visions of the Virgin Mary, from a psychoanalytical perspective. It draws from Jung’s compensation theoretical model with the aim of merging depth-psychology and historical material from the ...
Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism: The Asclepius Complex
1st Edition
By Antonio Lanfranchi
October 10, 2019
Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism is concerned with the loss of a sense of limit in technological medicine today, and the way in which the denial of death leads to an uncontrollable, consumeristic multiplication of needs. Taking its starting point from C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology, the ...
Shame and the Making of Art: A Depth Psychological Perspective
1st Edition
By Deborah Cluff
September 11, 2019
Shame remains at the core of much psychological distress and can eventuate as physical symptoms, yet experiential approaches to healing shame are sparse. Links between shame and art making have been felt, intuited, and examined, but have not been sufficiently documented by depth psychologists. ...
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 ...
The Archetypal Pan in America: Hypermasculinity and Terror
1st Edition
By Sukey Fontelieu
January 10, 2019
The Archetypal Pan in America examines the complex moral and ethical dilemmas that Americans have had to face over the last few decades, including the motivations for the Vietnam War; who was in control of women’s productive rights; how to extend civil rights to all; protests for the historically ...
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 ...
Towards a Jungian Theory of the Ego
1st Edition
By Karen Evers-Fahey
January 12, 2018
Despite their prevalence and weight in many of his collected works and letters, Jung did not articulate a general theory of the ego and consciousness. Towards a Jungian Theory of the Ego examines the development of Jung’s concept of the ego as he expanded and revised this concept, from his earliest...
Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali
1st Edition
By Leanne Whitney
January 08, 2018
The East-West dialogue increasingly seeks to compare and clarify contrasting views on the nature of consciousness. For the Eastern liberatory models, where a nondual view of consciousness is primary, the challenge lies in articulating how consciousness and the manifold contents of consciousness are...