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This book, now 9 years out in publication, has deserved our review for some time. On the surface, it involves material that is probably oriented more toward paychodynamic historians and sociologists than to practitioners who want to expand their knowledge of theories of the psyche. However, much more is involved. For example, the book sheds important light on the history of the many disquieting myths and power/political positions that for years denied the integration of Jungian ideas into the corpus of psychodynamic theory. While it is on the formal level a detailed description of the development of the Jungian movement from its inception, on the informal level the book actually has much to offer to the practitioner who reads between its lines.
The Jungians is well written and informative especially as an historical resource, but it is not a reference book on Jungian theory. Indeed some prior knowledge of that theory would be helpful for the book to be thoroughly useful.
That being said, for those who are interested in detailed information on the history and development of analytical psychology (as Jung