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The New York analysts seem to have a gift for applying Jung's concepts to personal relationships. Many years ago Mrs. Wickes published The Inner World of Childhood; Esther Harding's Way of All Women followed. Dr. Bertine has now produced a book which almost seems designed to fit into a series.
It is not a technical volume and is meant for the intelligent reader with a smattering of reading in Jung's works. The introduction will help him, but not I think quite enough, for in the first chapter the reader is introduced into the Chakras of the Kundalini Yoga with very little preparation and throughout the volume there are periodic references to eastern mysticism used as parallels to clinical material or as illustrations to a particular concept. The uninitiated reader may not always find it easy to follow these parallels.
What human relationships are considered? The family, the individual in the group, marriage, and friendship. The thesis will be familiar to analysts; it depends upon the idea that development is to be viewed as setting up ego boundaries which break up the primitive identity from which the infant begins, and which persists in the unconscious throughout life. The interaction between the ego and the persistent unconscious then leads to individuation.
In spite of the familiarity of the theme the book is original. Every bit of it has clearly grown out of Dr. Bertine's pioneering experience. It should be said that this has its limitations as well as its advantages, but the reader will enjoy the direct sincerity with which the volume is written, its unpretentiousness, its good sense and obvious clinical competence and dexterity.
On the whole Dr. Bertine is at her best when using her own words, and her use of metaphor is especially striking and vivid, and I was not surprised to find myself enjoying her description of the way in which she handled a patient with an anima possession. This excellence is also particularly in evidence when she discusses the animus and the