Description

Jungian theories and clinical approaches to the central therapeutic and developmental issue of abandonment are featured with topics covering early infancy, the creative woman, transformation, and others.

Contents

Michael Fordham – Abandonment in Infancy

Marion Woodman – Abandonment in the Creative Woman

Jeffrey Satinover – At the Mercy of Another: Abandonment and Restitution in Psychosis and Psychotic Character

Patricia Berry-Hillman – Some Dream Motifs Accompanying the “Abandonment” of an Analytic Practice

Harriet Gordon Machtiger – Perilous Beginnings: Loss, Abandonment, and Transformation

Renaldo Maduro – Abandonment and Deintegration of the Primary Self

Gilda Frantz – Birth’s Cruel Secret: I am my own Lost Mother To my own Sad Child

William Willeford – Abandonment, Wish, and Hope in the Blues

Tristan 0. Cornes – Symbol and Ritual in Melancholia: The Archetype of The Divine Victim

SERIES EDITORS:

Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a supervising training analyst and former president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). His most recent books include Outside Inside and All Around, Minding the Self and The Principle of Individuation. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He lectures internationally on topics related to Analytical Psychology and its applications in the contemporary world. He is publisher emeritus of Chiron Publications and is the focus of many Asheville Jung Center online seminars.

Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, trained in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous books, including The Borderline Personality: Vision and Healing, Narcissism and Character Transformation, and The Black Nightgown: The Fusional Complex and the Unlived Life as well as the co-editor of the Chiron Clinical Series. He is the director of the Foundation for Research in Jungian Psychology.

Contribution by: Woodman, Marion, Contribution by: Fordham, Michael, Contribution by: Patricia, Berry – Hillman

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 163051070X
Language: English
Pages: 250