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Hall states explicitly that the aim of his book is to give a head start to those entering analysis based on the classical Jungian approach. Readers are introduced early to a concept of the classical as distinct from the archetypal approach. My impression is that he does not mention a developmental approach.
Ten years ago James Hall made an impressive impact on the readership of works on analytical psychology with his book Clinical Uses of Dreams: Jungian Interpretations and Enactments. He had much to go on at that time. After all, dreams had been staple diet for him from the start of his Zürich studies some ten years before that. I would recommend those who begin with this slim summary of Hall's views to read his two earlier books on dream interpretation. Now, as then, he writes authoritatively, some might say seductively, in his easy use of the adjective ‘Jungian’. Jung himself, let it be said, would turn in his grave, for he used to say that there was only one Jungian and that was Carl Gustav.
However, ‘Von Franzian’ as much of James Hall's writing is, it has to be admitted that his three books do give the uninitiated reader very good grounding in some of the basic tenets of analytical psychology, which certainly derive from C.G. Jung. The same readers will then need to explore the embryology of this discipline through other avenues opened up by writers in England, Germany and California to name the most productive centres. I use the word ‘centres’ advisedly, rather than ‘schools’, as meaning centres of study. To talk of schools of analytical psychology is, in my view, as retrograde a step as to use the word ‘Jungian’ as definitive of analytical psychology: the discipline has been extensively developed by so many scholarly clinicians since Jung in ways which, I feel sure, he would have applauded, not appropriated. One danger is that increasing use of these inaccuracies will obscure the fact of analytical psychology as a developing discipline in the affairs of men an