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For those who are not familiar with the work of Carl Jung and his associates, the term analytical psychology refers to the coherent body of Jungian ideas and practice, just as psychoanalysis refers to the coherent body of Freudian ideas and practice.
Jungian ideas are now beginning to be incorporated into the corpus of psychodynamic thinking in this country, as a generic psychodynamics is developed from the integration of many disparate sources. The complex history of this development cannot be elaborated in the present review due to space limitations. Suffice it to say that Michael Fordham, who survived Jung by 34 years and died in 1995, was not just an explicator of Jung's ideas, but was himself a major innovator in the sense of expanding those ideas into areas that Jung touched on only briefly, if at all. In addition, Fordham did important work integrating the thinking of Jung and Melanie Klein, and also contributed unique and seminal concepts of his own.
Jung did very little with the phenomena and dynamics of childhood, and