Books Received

PAPADOPOULOS, R K, & GARRATT, S. J. The Second Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications. Routledge. 2026. Pp.344. Pbk. £36.99.

Nearly two decades after the original Handbook of Jungian Psychology established itself as a standard reference, this successor volume extends and critically revisits the field. Edited by Renos K. Papadopoulos and Stephen Garratt, it gathers eighteen chapters organised across three sections — Theory, Psychotherapy, and Applications — with contributions from Sonu Shamdasani, Murray Stein, Fanny Brewster, Thomas Singer, and others. The introduction frames the volume as engaged with both tradition and transformation: Jungian concepts are treated as living ideas requiring contextualisation, critique, and revision rather than doctrinal preservation. Alongside clinical and theoretical chapters, the book addresses colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, economic inequality, and ecological crisis. Intended for clinicians, researchers, and academics, it positions analytical psychology as a field actively reckoning with its own historical situatedness.

GIEGERICH, W. The Airtight Construction of a Neurosis, the Logic of Modernity, and the Mother of Psychology: On Marco Heleno Barreto's analysis of Giegerich's psychology as the discipline of interiority. Dusk Owl Books. 2026. Pp.132. Pbk. $17.90.

Giegerich replies to Barreto's provocative charge that his psychology as the discipline of interiority is, by its own diagnostic criteria, neurotically dissociated. The exchange — itself recursive, each thinker deploying the other's tools — advances the post-Jungian “with Jung, beyond Jung” dialectic into genuinely new speculative territory, centering on whether metaphysics retains legitimate currency in modernity. Rigorous and combative, this slim

volume will reward senior analysts and theoretically