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Carpani's book focuses on Samuels' application of pluralism in his supervision of Ph.D. students over several decades while Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex. Pluralism is an attitude to conflict which tries to reconcile inner or outer differences without imposing a false resolution on them or losing sight of the unique value of each position.
The book is structured as follows:
| Section 1 | comprises chapters from the Ph.D.‘s of 11 of Samuels’ students. |
| Section 2 | comprises 11 short portraits of Samuels as a supervisor written by these students. |
| Section 3 | is a highly engaging and frank conversation between Carpani and Samuels on the latter's personal and intellectual biographies, his contribution to depth psychology and political understanding. |
Carpani describes Samuel's Ph.D. students as ‘neo-Jungians’ of the Essex School, i.e. scholars ‘trained at the Centre for Psychoanalytical Studies at Essex University who have specialized in Jung studies but whose passion for psychoanalysis goes beyond Jung's theory’ (p. 1).
Crucially, the result of this training is not a practice of viewing or critiquing other traditions through the lens of analytical psychology — instead the (pluralist) aim is to employ Jung in new ways along with other schools and traditions of psychoanalysis to mutually enrich each other. The results are evident in the individuality and diversity of the chapters contributed by Samuels' Ph.D. students:
An enquiry into psychological aspects of recovery from dependence on psychoactive substances (Mary Addenbrooke).
The tabloid Trickster: a post-Jungian evaluation of early twenty-first century popular British newspaper journalism characterized by that of The Sun (James Alan Anslow).
Laws of inheritance: an archetypal study of twins (Elizabeth Brodersen).
From emancipation to liberation: a neo-Jungian critique of Theodor Adorno (Stefano Carpani).
A spatial rapprochement between Jung's technique of active imagination and Desoille's Rêve éveillé di