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This posthumous book contains collected papers, lectures and recollections of a Jungian analyst who lived from 1891 to 1967. He was a pupil of Jung, and a pioneer analytical psychologist in England. The writings are divided into five sections under the headings
C. G. Jung. The man and his work.
The psychiatric field.
Problems of psychotherapy.
Healing in depth.
The religious cord.
There are a preface, a foreword and also an introduction, written respectively by Laurens van der Post, Professor Paul Seligman and Dr. H. I. Bach. The introduction sketches the outline of the author's life. In these preliminary writings the book is well supported by deep and sincere appreciation of the author and his work.
However, in the very acclaim with which the book is launched, there is detectable a certain anxiety. It seems to be an anxiety lest its high quality should pass unrecognized. ‘Here,’ they seem to say, ‘is something precious that the world may not realize’.
It is true that it is not an ordinary book either in quality or in kind. Its unusualness consists in the fact that, though not lacking in intellectual integrity and verbal aptness, its main and unique contribution derives from its author's highly differentiated feeling function. Its strength lies in a profound awareness of the individual human object, a subtle perception of his emotional and spiritual situation, and a disciplined compassion towards personal need which has no element of condescension. If at the same time the text occasionally presents as if it were naïve, its dignity is always safeguarded by genuine unpretentiousness, and a capacity to do honour to each human personality in all circumstances.
This approach is brought to bear on a varied psychological theme: the personality, work and theory of Jung; the author's experience in the changing psychiatric scene; his experiences and main findings in analytical practice, very amply illustrated by examples; and the general view of meaning, life and psyche which he glea