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This is the first book in what is designated as a series on ‘Methods in psychotherapy’. The series editor is Boris Semenoff of the Department of Psychiatry at Edinburgh University. This volume is a really excellent presentation of Jung's ideas, and of the developments that have occurred in the thinking and practice of analytical psychology. It is both comprehensive and compact, well annotated, and with a good index and bibliography.
The book is divided into two parts. In Part One the chapters are headed: 1, The model; 2, The development of Jung's thesis; 3, Dreams; 4, Amplification and active imagination; 5, Jung's conception of psychotherapy; and Part Two contains 6, Analysis; 7, The setting of analysis; 8, Starting analysis; 9, Transference and countertransference; 10, Resistance and counter-resistance; 11, Some less-organised behaviour of therapists; 12, Interpretation; 13, The analysis of childhood and its limits; 14, The origin of active imagination; 15, Terminating analysis; 16, Training; 17, Some applications of therapeutic method.
As can be seen, this presentation is focused in a very practical and clinical manner, and will be of value in a wide field, not only for those training or considering training in analytical psychology, but for all those interested in, or working in, psychotherapy generally, and this will include psychiatrists, social workers, and clinical psychologists.
Readers of this Journal will be familiar with Fordham's views, that the prototype for the individuation process described by Jung in the second half of life lies in the first two years of development. ‘After birth and during his previous intrauterine life, an infant is separate from his mother, and therefore his condition may be considered as representing the primary state or unity of the self. He then makes a relation to his mother by the activation of ‘drives’ conceived to deintegrate out of the self. They lead to his mother providing satisfaction for them, and the infant then reinte