The Jungian experience

Paperbound; 171 pp., including 9 black-and-white illustrations, 3 appendices, a glossary, bibliographic references in endnotes, and an index. The author is an OFJ speaker. Contents: Introduction: A personal statement 1. The troubled person The Jungian vision Analysis: Frequency and duration Jungian analysis: Training and background The personal equation Summary 2. The mind and the body Complexes: How they form and how they change The purpose and experience of a complex The affect-ego Identity structures Embodiment and disembodiment: Dissolve and coagulate The ego and the self The psyche and the soul Summary 3. A note about diagnosis Psychopathology and individuation Psychological types Summary 4. The Structure of analysis Frequency and fees Boundary conditions: The therapeutic contract Responsibilities of the analyst Responsibilities of the analysand The transformative field The therapeutic ratio Medication 5. The process of analysis The first step: Self-examination The second step: Compassion toward oneself Stages of the analytic process Analysis itself as a stage Beginning analysis / ending analysis 6. Dreams and techniques of enactment Freud's dream theory Jung's view of dreams Remembering dreams The dream record Amplification of dreams The dramatic structure of dreams Compensation in dreams Dreams in analysis Enactment techniques Summary 7. Variations of analysis Group psychotherapy Marital therapy: Archetype of the coniunctio Family therapy Hypnotherapy Summary 8. The individuating ego The personal and the transpersonal Circumambulation of the self "Negative" forms of the unconscious Mandala forms Crucifixion and enlightenment: The cross and the bhodi tree Preparation for death Beyond death 9: Beyond analysis: Scientific and religious implications of Jungian theory Jung and Freud The Jungian psyche Religious implications Scientific Implications Concluding statement Appendix 1: Structural elements of the personality Appendix 2: How and where to find Jungian analysts Appendix 3: Suggested readings Notes Glossary of Jungian terms Index