Gathered into one volume and appearing in chronological order are David Holt's talks and papers of the last twenty-two years. The book is made up of twenty-eight chapters and the foreword is by J. Jarrett. I found the title on the spine misleading. The explanatory subtitle appears on the title page in small print under the title in bold, once again drawing attention to Carl Jung rather than David Holt. The sombre appearance of this hardback edition foretells the weighty contents within. The essays cover an astonishingly wide range of topics, such as ‘Man, woman, money’, ‘The cost of heath’, ‘Jung and Marx’, ‘How I analyse psyche’, ‘Dreamwork and prayer’, ‘Narrative and performance’, ‘Alchemy and psychosis’, and ‘History and holocaust’.

I found this a difficult book to read. Holt's language is at times perplexingly