The Practice of Psychotherapy: Second Edition (Collected Works of C. G. Jung) - Softcover

Jung, C.G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415102340 ISBN 13: 9780415102346

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

The Practice of Psychotherapy brings together Jung's essays on general questions of analytic therapy and dream analysis. It also contains his profoundly interesting parallel between the transference phenomena and alchemical processes.

The transference is illustrated and interpreted by means of a set of symbolic pictures, and the bond between psychotherapist and patient is shown to be a function of the kinship libido. Far from being pathological in its effects, kinship libido has an essential role to play in the work of individuation and in establishing an organic society based on the psychic connection of its members with one another and with their own roots.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book gives the substance of Jung's published writings on Freud and psychoanalysis between 1906 and 1916, with two later papers. It covers the period of the enthusiastic collaboration between the two pioneers of psychology through the years when Jung's growing appreciation of religious experience and his criticism of Freud's emphasis on pathology led, with other differences, to his formal break with his mentor.

Review:

"My aim is to bring about a psychic state in which my patient begins to experiment with his own nature - a state of fluidity, change and growth where nothing is externally fixed and hopelessly petrified." - C.G. Jung

"An excellent primer to appreciation of Jung's contribution to psychological thought." - The Virginia Quarterly Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0415102340
• ISBN 13: 9780415102346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 412