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This volume brings together all the familiar, and some less familiar, clinical and theoretical debates which characterize the field of analytical psychology. In the first part of the book Elizabeth Urban addresses the debate between the Classical and the Developmental Jungian schools through a clinical case study of her own patient. Ruthie is a phobic adolescent, whose inner ‘flap’, as Elizabeth Urban presents her, is represented through her pigeon phobia. Focusing primarily on the process of the self, she demonstrates the application of Fordham's developmental model of deintegration and its links to the Kleinian developmental model. Julian David then provides comment on the clinical process from the classical Jungian perspective, placing his own phenomenological reading of the clinical process within broad social dynamic processes of both local and anthropological practices. In contrast, Robert Hinshelwood's comments demonstrate his reading of the clinical process in the broad social dynamic process of theory and conceptual development. He clearly differentiates two levels of self and ego, which he reads as differentiating the two schools, as well as two levels of the development of clinical practice and theory. By placing his analysis in the context of the historical development of the concepts of self and ego he adds something new to this debate.
In the following two chapters on the status of developmental theory, Christopher Hauke and JoAnn Culbert-Koehn offer two critical perspectives on the developmental controversy embedded in the clinical focus of the first chapters. Christopher Hauke puts forward a post-modern critique, while Culbert-Koehn offers a perspective from her clinical experience with early trauma, including birth trauma - phenomena which, though not central in psychoanalytic developmental theory, have received attention from the Italian researchers she cites. Culbert-Koehn cites some psychoanalytically-oriented developmental research, linking this