This is a sad book to read. In fact, one would not expect that such a type of bad development would occur between the two most important figures of psychoanalisys. It is as if Marx and Engels had broken their friendship for life and began to fight for fame and glory in front of everybody. The spoil was huge: nothing more than the primacy for fame and glory in the first steps of psychanalisys.

Sure, the letters span a pretty much limited space of time of no more than 8 years (1906-1914) but the reader has to keep in mind that what was at stake was the establishing of the foundations of psychoanalisys all over Europe and also in the whole World.
What began as a cordial friendship and evolved into an almost father (Freud) to son (Jung) relationship, deteriorated into the most depressive fighting of personal primacy on many subjects. In this regard, it seems that the feud was initiated by Freud who considered Jung a type of his personal assistant to market the developments of his findings
THe fact that this is a abridged edition does not mean nothing except that here the common reader will find the most important material exchanged by the two great men and will be saved from some meaningless material of more burocratical tone.
Also of value is the introduction that ilustrates all the effort made by the two family sides to publish the letters, in spite the view by Jung that the ideal time for them to be published would be 20 to 30 years after his death.

THis is a must reading for anyone interested in the history of psychanalisys.

I had Ziemian's Course on this book at Bucknell as an undergrad. It is a great prelude to advanced CE design, and a great intro to finite element analysis!!!

After having been diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in 1999, I was anxious to obtain a copy. This book, I believe, is a must read for those newly diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. While I had done a lot of research on my own and of course received advice from my Oncologists, I felt that this book put everything into perspective. It helped me to understand the basis of my Oncologists' recommendations. The contributors to the book are all leading international Gynecologic/Medical Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, Pathologists - all those whose main interests lie in Ovarian/Gynecologic cancers. As medical technology and new information resulting from clinical trials become available, it would be helpful to have a Second Edition update sometime in the not so distant future.

A classic book that one has to read about the very definition of the unconscious. Particularly interetingare the differences with Freud

...but a tiring survey of previous typologies that must be read before you get to Jung's version.

Jung's theories are absolutely amazing. Anyone who is interested in psychology should read this book!

A deep look at the mechanisms of the "psychic functions". Surely instructive for layman with its analysis of human behaviour in everyday life. This work best explores the Jung's concept of the unconscious and proves that his concept is far from being a mystical one as some critics wrote. It also gives a historical perspective of the thoughts of some great thinkers (Schiller, William James and some others )on the problem of psychological types.

This is a story of one son's search for his father's memory. Of his father's last bombing mission in the Liberators that flew out of English aerodromes during WWII.

With the serendipitousness of the Cosmos in action, Bill McGuire, husband & father of a full-grown family, is given a lifelong wish to fly in a Liberator. He also wins tickets for a trip to Europe.

Unlike other war memoirs & biographies, After The Liberators is an emotion-charged recreations of his father's last days Stateside when the author was born; of his father's time in England as part of the US Army Air Force, fleshed out with descriptions by survivors of that fateful raid & of the German villagers who found his father's crashed plane & gave his father's crew a decent burial.

This is a story about war orphans & growing up after the war; about bombardiers & navigators; electrically heated flying suits & the search for documentation; about aircraft assembly plants & Zeppelin factories; about a mission doomed from the start & a sky filled with enemy aircraft.

It is also a healing memoir, rekindling a time few now remember, from a fatherless son who could not forget.

Bill McGuire offers more than a story, he includes charts & documents of the 392nd Bomb Group along with a host of family & military photographs together with a good Index & Bibliography as well as a list of Information Sources for those interested in gathering the last fragments of their relatives' memories.

An unusual addition to your war book shelf.

Bill McGuire, Jr. never knew his dad, Lt. William McGuire, an Army Air Corps B-24 navigator shot down during World War II. Raised in the New York area by his mother and a stepfather who seemed to prefer that the young boy not remember his real father, the young McGuire becomes one of the collateral casualties of war--a fatherless boy.

After a successful career, McGuire by chance comes upon a website that rekindles his interest in searching for the father he never knew. He not only wants to know more about the handsome young man, ironically young enough now to be McGuire's own son, but about the circumstances surrounding his death. Thus begins the journey that resulted in part in this fine book.

"After the Liberators" is more than just a book tracing the search for the truth about the demise of McGuire's father and the rest of his crew. It is at the same time a deeply personal memoir of the author himself. The book covers virtually all stages of the author's life, showing brilliantly how the absence of a father shaped the psyche of the son. McGuire tells the story by jumping from 1944 to the fifties, sixties, seventies--all the way to the present, weaving the different stages of his life together masterfully to give a clear and poignant picture of one man's loss and his search for what that loss ultimately meant to him.

His descriptions of the crew and the final mission are masterful and exciting, and will surely interest any reader who enjoys reading about aerial combat and its effects on the young men who waged it. But it is McGuire's reflections on his own journey that make this book different from most books about the air war. We learn, as does McGuire, that his mother, a loving woman who was never the less unstable, is in the end another victim of the air war. Her own dreams of family and future go down with her husband and his Liberator. All she has to hold to is her young son, and she holds too tightly at times.

The detective work McGuire engages in to uncover the truth about his father's last mission and last moments makes for absorbing reading as well. Incredibly, McGuire wins a raffle and is awarded airline tickets to Europe. With this fortuitous occurance, he is able to go to Europe to find his father's grave, and to visit the site where the plane went down. He also learns of the kindness of the local German populace who gave the young airmen who fell that day a decent Christian burial in the church cemetary.

I found this book to be on par with several other excellent books written by sons of warriors. It compares favorably with Jim Merrett's "Goodbye Liberty Belle", Thomas Childers' "On the Wings of Morning" and Jim Bradley's "Flags of Our Fathers".
No one who reads "After the Liberators" will come away from the experience unmoved. McGuire speaks for an entire generation of children left fatherless by World War II, and he does so powerfully, eloquently and without self-pity. I consider this book a must-read by anyone interested in the air war, in the efforts of family members to search for their lost sons and fathers, or in the effects of war on children. I recommend it very highly, and am certain that somewhere, William McGuire, Sr., forever young, is proud of his son's efforts.

Although it would seem that this book is best enjoyed by readers whose primary interest is World War II history, I'm here to tell you that McGuire's great account takes you far beyond what happened to his father in 1944, and to the author in the years thereafter. This book is a story about determination, about honor, and above all about the love a father - or a mother - should expect from a child. Set aside McGuire's engrossing narrative related to the war and you still get fabulous storytelling by a gifted, natural writer. And as with all wonderful stories that stick to your ribs, this one is about real people. It ought to be studied by anyone who hopes one day to put words on a page that will not fade.

Deconstructing Jung.
This book derives from a written transcript of a seminar held about the time Jung broke with Freud and had a psychotic episode ("nervous breakdown" is how you usually hear about it). I came to this book after years of reading many of Jung's published works (beginning with his "Autobiography" & "Man and His Symbols" and later several of his Collected Works: "Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious," "Psychology and Alchemy," "Alchemical Studies," "Aion;" as well as the essays collected in "Modern Man in Search of a Soul" and Vincent Brome's fine biography, "Jung: Man and Myth").

What I like about the present book is this: Jung's books are not easy to understand (he's an alchemist, remember). And many of his followers hollowly parrot what they understood the Master to have said. And his god-like status as a Western shaman is an awesome subcultural projection to overcome-yet one must do so to go beyond the myth and encounter one's own destiny, above and beyond merely imitating Jung's life or blindly following his erstwhile "system." (You know, I have seldom had a dream in four parts, making it a quadraplicity, yet my dreams are not incomplete.) This book reveals Jung the man working on himself and dealing with his own problems: the break with Freud, his psychotic episode, women/anima problems. The most notable aspect of this seminar is the time dwelt on anima problems, specifically Rider Haggard's novel, "She," the prototypical story of the anima or inner-woman-as-soul that every man must somehow wrestle (whether via Jung's understanding or some other). Jung only alludes to this novel in his published books; here, it is discussed in considerable detail, revealing insights as well as shortcomings in Jung's thought. In many ways, much of the material here was familiar from other books. Yet it is the personal, intimate quality of Jung-the-man's seminar that breathed life into otherwise dusty, grey concepts that appealed to me here. I was led to this book via Brome's biography (above), who also recommended Jung's earlier book, "Psychology of the Unconsious" as the version of these researches published by Jung himself in his lifetime.

Many analytic concepts presented and illustrated here, including a brief history of Jung's own development from his own perspective. This, the Zarathustra, and the Dream seminars work well together.

This is just what it says; it is a hodge-podge of Jung's writings, everything from a seminar to the preface and introductions to other's books. There are some real gems in here, like the section on Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams and The Symbolic Life, to name a few, but this volume is primarily for those who have plowed through the other 17 volumes and can't get enough Jung.

Although rather disorganized, this book is stuffed with insightful bits and pieces of Jungian wisdom. It's best read after one finishes with the Collected Works, or at least its major volumes.

The table of contents shown on this page is not the right one. The main features in this book are: 1. Interdisciplinary Cross-Fertilization 2. Attitudes and Behavior 3. Information Processing and Cognition 4. Decision Making and Choise. Greatings - Thomas Kühn

I thoroughly enjoyed paging through these fascinating letters; for any student of the Unconsious, this collection offers exciting material. At times, some material can seem superfluous. Perhaps a little editorial massaging could have arranged the letters in such a way as to make accessing the kernels and nuggets of Freudian and Jungian thought a little easier for students and amateurs interested in quick quotes and primary reference material. But overall, the editors did a fantastic job--this book is a "dream." Interpret it as you wish.