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Mark Winborn's Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique is a genuine tour de force. As the title suggests, the theme of the book is interpretation, the primary technical device utilized clinically in virtually all stripes of classical analytic therapy to illuminate unconscious factors at work in a patient's life. Winborn examines the nature of interpretation, its discrete characteristics and structure, its role in analytic process, the vast range of differing types of interpretation, and the connections between interpretation and other aspects of analytic practice, such as reverie and confrontation. The result is a readable and insightful account of interpretation and a comprehensive articulation of the specific place of interpretation within analytic therapy and analytic process as a whole. This work stands as a milestone within the history of analytical psychology on a number of counts: it is the first book exclusively on interpretation in the history of analytical psychology; it is one of the few books in the Jungian literature focusing exclusively on an issue of clinical technique; it is also an outstanding example of Jungian research that integrates the best work on technique from the Freudian tradition without losing its Jungian focus. Furthermore, the book's clear and comprehensive treatment, as well as its inclusion of ‘Exercises for the reader’, which are designed to aid in the development of skills for the art of interpretation, guarantees that it will be required reading in training institutes for years to come.
The introduction and part of the first chapter deal with the ambivalence one typically encounters among Jungians concerning issues of clinical technique. As Winborn notes, whereas Freudian psychoanalytic training typically focuses a good deal on clinical technique, Jungian training institutes typically do not. This situation is no accident of history. Both Jung's tendency to emphasize his differences from Freud and the Freudian school,