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Available as a 2-volume set, Pbk. £45
Taken together, these two volumes offer an extraordinary insight into the range and depth of Jungian-related research around the world, as well as into the delights and perils of research as a very complex activity. They stem from the work of the Academic sub-Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology in developing and encouraging research in the Jungian
field. This work intensified and deepened during Joseph Cambray's presidency of the IAAP (2010-2013), and meetings between academic and clinical Jungian researchers in the years after the 2013 International Congress in Copenhagen pushed the work onwards.
The first volume, edited by Joseph Cambray and Leslie Sawin, looks at applications of analytical psychology found in scientific, historical and cross-cultural research. The introduction by the two editors surveys the development of research into Jungian theory and practice from its roots in Western Europe and North America across the globe, and from clinically-oriented analysts and interested lay people to academics and analysts with an interest in scholarly work. The bidirectionality of influence is acknowledged, as is the need to challenge the restricted world view of Jung and his immediate followers. Engaging with these kinds of research activities in different cultures requires openness to learning and to being challenged by, sometimes, a very different perspective.
The second part of the volume is concerned with different approaches to interdisciplinary research in this wider community. Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson's chapter tackles the relationship between analytical psychology and postmodernism, finding links between the former's interest in depth and the latter's insistence of surface in the areas of personal, rather than global truths, the play of language, the partiality of perspective (including self-perspective), the necessity for pluralistic approaches (‘both/and’), and the irreducible effects of