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This is the first volume of a planned series. The preface and first three theoretical chapters on selection, on the general foundations of methodology and on the archetypal field of forces in the initial dream and in the subsequent process are by the editor. She is followed by six other contributors who each present clinical material to substantiate the theoretical orientation common in the whole book.
In her preface the editor begins with the claim that ‘one hundred years after C. G. Jung's birth an idea can be brought to fruition which has been gestating over many years, namely, to collect, compare and further the theoretical and therapeutic possibilities and experiences gathered in the treatment of neurotically afflicted child, adolescent and adult patients, all treated by the methods of analytical psychology of C. G. Jung, motivating our work and guiding it into the above-mentioned specific paths’.
Volume I is entirely the work of child and adolescent psychotherapists trained at the C. G. Jung Institute, Stuttgart.
This large-sized book of 600 pages contains 336 pages from the Stuttgart therapists and 272 pages of quotations from Jung on the concept, ‘symbol’, culled from volumes 1-17 of the German edition of the Collected works.
From the sheer management point of view, I found this book unwieldy, all the more as one of its stated aims is that of serving as a basic textbook for psychotherapists, especially during their practical training. It is further designed as a reference book for physicians, psychologists, theologians, educators, sociologists, parents and all members of the helping professions. Part 2, with Jung's quotations, is intended mainly for this latter mixed group.
In this boldly attempted, and by any standards, luxuriantly eloquent book 37 pages are contributed by Ursula Eschenbach herself. Pages 33, 34, 35 and 36 are devoted to quotations from Freud who ‘was also very interested in the importance of the symbol and in its frequently mysterious phenomeno