The Jung-Kirsch Letters covers the correspondence from 1928-1961 between Jung and James Kirsch, the German Jewish psychiatrist and analyst. Kirsch was a first-generation follower and analysand of Jung, who founded Jungian communities in Berlin, Tel Aviv, London, Los Angeles - the latter with his wife, Hilde Kirsch, whose correspondence with Jung is included in the book. In the 1930s, Kirsch along with other Jewish Jungian analysts, fled the Nazi tyranny in Germany.

The first half of the correspondence takes place against the background of one of the darkest periods of European history. As a result, much of its focus is on the Jewish/Christian question. Two other consistent themes are the development of Jung's theoretical constructs, particularly synchronicity; and Kirsch's problematic relations with women patients. The imbalance in the relationship is expressed by the way they