New and Forthcoming Books
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The One Mind
C.G. Jung and the Future of Literary Criticism
The One Mind: C. G. Jung and the Future of Literary Criticism explores the implications of C. G. Jung's unus mundus by applying his writings on the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the quantum to literature. As Jung knew, everything is connected because of its participation in universal...
To Be Published September 17th 2013 by Routledge
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For Love of the Imagination
Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis
"I have entitled this book For Love of the Imagination. Long ago, I fell in love with the imagination. It was love at first sight. I have had a lifelong love affair with the imagination. I would love for others, through this book, to fall in love, as I once did, with the imagination." Michael...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Visible Mind
Movies, modernity and the unconscious
Why is the moving image so important in our lives? What is the link between the psychology of Jung, Freud and films? How do film and psychology address the problems of modernity? Visible Mind is a book about why film is so important to contemporary life, how film affects us psychologically as...
To Be Published July 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Jung and Moreno
Essays on the theatre of human nature
To many, Jung and Moreno seem to be on opposite sides in their theories and their practices of psychotherapy. Jung defines self as emerging inwardly in an intrapsychic process of individuation; Moreno defines self as enacted outwardly in psychosocial networks of relationships. Jung and Moreno:...
To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Time and Timelessness
Temporality in the theory of Carl Jung
Series: Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
Time and Timelessness examines the development of Jung's understanding of time throughout his opus, and the ways in which this concept has affected key elements of his work. In this book Yiassemides suggests that temporality plays an important role in many of Jung's central ideas, and is closely...
To Be Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
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How and Why We Still Read Jung
Personal and professional reflections
How relevant is Jung’s work today? How and Why We Still Read Jung offers a fresh look at how Jung’s work can still be read and applied to the modern day. Written by seasoned Jungian analysts and Jung scholars, the essays in this collection offer in depth and often personal readings of various...
Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
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Trauma and the Soul
A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption
In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including...
Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
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The Darkening Spirit
Jung, spirituality, religion
The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. Jung predicted the demise of secular humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science, atheism and reason. We would experience a new and even unfashionable appetite for the sacred....
Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Rhetorical Investigations
G. B. Vico and C. G. Jung
Rhetorical analysis of texts exposes plausible ‘truths’ and presumptions implied by the writer’s presentation. In this volume, Leslie Gardner analyses the master psychologist Jung, who claimed to be expert at uncovering personal, psychological truths. In his theoretical writings, his rhetoric...
Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Gods and Diseases
Making sense of our physical and mental wellbeing
Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase such as depression, phobias and anxiety with no...
Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Cartesian Philosophy and the Flesh
Reflections on incarnation in analytical psychology
How do you know anything is true? What relation is there between my psyche and your psyche, does one exist? Can we doubt everything or are some things indubitable? What does Jung have to say about body and psyche, body and mind? Cartesian Philosophy and the Flesh is an analysis and critique of...
Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
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The Phenomena of Awareness
Husserl, Cantor, Jung
What is awareness? How is dreaming different from ordinary awareness? What does mathematics have to do with awareness? Are different kinds of awareness related? “Awareness” is commonly spoken of as “mind, soul, spirit, consciousness, the unconscious, psyche, imagination, self, and other.” The...
Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
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The Jung Reader
Carl Gustav Jung was the pioneering founder of analytical psychology, a form of analysis that has revolutionised the approach to mental illness and the study of the mind. In this anthology, David Tacey brings together a selection of Jung's essays from his famous Collected Works. Divided into...
Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Jung on Art
The Autonomy of the Creative Drive
In this book, Tjeu van den Berk examines C. G. Jung's personal perspective on art and how his work intensely engages with this theme. It analyses Jung’s profound reflections on artistic considerations such as how we experience art, the specific qualities in the perception of beauty, the nature of...
Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge
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The Dark Ground of Spirit
Schelling and the Unconscious
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is widely regarded as one of the most difficult and influential of German philosophers. In this book, S. J. McGrath not only makes Schelling's ideas accessible to a general audience, he uncovers the romantic philosopher's seminal role as the creator of a...
Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
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The Neurobiology of the Gods
How Brain Physiology Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams
Where does science end and religion begin? Can "spiritual" images and feelings be understood on a neurobiological level without dismissing their power and mystery? In this book, psychiatrist Erik Goodwyn addresses these questions by reviewing decades of research, putting together a compelling...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Midlife Transformation in Literature and Film
Jungian and Eriksonian Perspectives
In this book, Steven F. Walker considers the midlife transition from a Jungian and Eriksonian perspective, by providing vivid and powerful literary and cinematic examples that illustrate the psychological theories in a clear and entertaining way. For C.G. Jung, midlife is a time for personal...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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The Trickster in Contemporary Film
This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters always reflect psychological, economic and social change in society. It covers a range of films, from...
Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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The Ecocritical Psyche
Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung
The Ecocritical Psyche unites literary studies, ecocriticism, Jungian ideas, mythology and complexity evolution theory for the first time, developing the aesthetic aspect of psychology and science as deeply as it explores evolution in Shakespeare and Jane Austen. In this book, Susan Rowland...
Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Anteros
A Forgotten Myth
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work of Freud, Lacan, and Jung, among others. It examines the successive cultural experiences that formed...
Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
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The Archaic
The Past in the Present
The Archaic takes as its major reference points C.G. Jung's classic essay, 'Archaic Man' (1930), and Ernesto Grassi's paper on 'Archaic Theories of History' (1990). Moving beyond the confines of a Jungian framework to include other methodological approaches, this book explores the concept of the...
Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
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New Ideas about Eating Disorders
Human Emotions and the Hunger Drive
In this book, Charles Stewart discusses how the positive affects of the life instinct such as interest and joy, and the crisis affects such as fear, anguish, rage, shame and contempt, condition and can even dissociate the hunger drive, thereby contributing to either positive or negative attitudes...
Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
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Shamans and Analysts
New Insights on the Wounded Healer
Shamans and Analysts provides a model by which to understand the wounded healer phenomenon. It provides evidence as to how this dynamic arises and gives a theoretical model by which to understand it, as well as practical implications for the way analysts' wounds can be transformed and used in their...
Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos
Complexity Theory, Deleuze|Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis
This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contributions from Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Jungian, and Lacanian traditions...
Published July 24th 2011 by Routledge
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Jung and Film II: The Return
Further Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image
Since Jung and Film was first published in 2001, Jungian writing on the moving image in film and television has accelerated. Jung and Film II: The Return provides new contributions from authors across the globe willing to tackle the broader issues of film production and consumption, the audience...
Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge
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The Jung-Kirsch Letters
The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and James Kirsch
This book charts Carl Gustav Jung’s 32-year correspondence with James Kirsch, a German-Jewish psychiatrist who founded Jungian communities in Berlin, Tel Aviv, London, and Los Angeles, and adds depth and complexity to the previously published record of the early Jungian movement. Their letters tell...
Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Sandplay Therapy in Vulnerable Communities
A Jungian Approach
Sandplay Therapy in Vulnerable Communities offers a new method of therapeutic care for people in acute crisis situations such as natural disasters and war, as well as the long-term care of children and adults in areas of social adversity including slums, refugee camps and high-density urban areas....
Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Survivors of Addiction
Narratives of Recovery
Addiction is something that affects many different people from all walks of life and can be difficult for a therapist to treat, and the client to conquer. In this book fifteen people who have formerly had serious addictions speak about their experiences. Survivors of Addiction draws on first-hand...
Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
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Masculine Shame
From Succubus to the Eternal Feminine
How does the image of the succubus relate to psychoanalytic thought? Masculine Shame: From Succubus to the Eternal Feminine explores the idea that the image of the succubus, a demonic female creature said to emasculate men and murder mothers and infants, has been created out of the masculine...
Published March 22nd 2011 by Routledge