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In this gem of a book, Murray Stein has brought together thirty-six of the foremost thinkers and practitioners in the Jungian field to explore what he calls Jungian Psychoanalysis—‘the clinical application of analytical psychology’ (p. xv). Stein asked
his authors to ‘expand on their own particular contributions’ and they have done him proud.
The book has five sections: Goals, Methods, The Analytic Process, Special Topics, and Training, each with an introduction by Stein. The first, Goals, takes its lead from Jung's four stages of treatment: confession, elucidation, education and transformation.
Stanton Marlan opens with a chapter on Facing the Shadow, moving from the task of accepting the ‘broken, ruined, weak, sick, inferior and socially unacceptable parts of ourselves’ (Hillman), to interrogating the prospective possibilities of the shadow, which, in its very mystery, challenges our ability to think and conceptualize. This is one of the more challenging chapters and is a challenging start to the book.
Patricia Vesey-McGrew breathes life into complex theory and looks particularly at the bipolar aspect of complexes; she discusses working with those parts of the complex that are normally projected onto another person or experienced internally, for example, in dreams or as an attacking inner object.
Thomas Singer gives an excellent explication of the concept of the cultural complex and goes on to apply it both to a personal example, provided by Cathy Kaplinsky, and a current cultural complex, relating to Islam and the West.
Josephine Evetts-Secker explores the educative aspect of analysis, placing the patient's experience at the heart of the process, from and through which both patient and analyst learn.
Diane Cousineau Brutsche starts from a patient's dream and explores how transformation is instigated, with the ego and the unconscious both mutually engaged in the process.
Joseph Cambray closes this section, outlining how the self can be seen as a self-organizing system,