Edinger is second only to von Franz as an interpreter of Jung, and in this book he takes Jung's AION step by step and explains the most difficult and meaningful parts of the book with unsurpassable acumen. A perfect companion to Jung's own book.

Lambert, like Jung, emphazises the importance of the person of the analyst for the course of his own analysis, which includes the analyst's development in the course of his own analysis and all further personal growth; for all this inevitably determines the kind of patient, and the sort of problem he can - or cannot - work with. Lambert also suggests ways in which the analyst's psycho-social-cultural backround may be a factor in deciding with which school of analysis he may choose to train. And so he brings together his own theoretical and clinical evolution with the fact of his being Anglo-Irish; with his keen interest in the history of ideas and practices whereby he can seek to demonstrate a historical continuum between the clinical attitudes of contemporary psychotherapy and those expressed in the Hippocratic Oath and St. Paul's concept of agape; and with his willingness to expose himself to and allow himself to be stimulated by the work of his colleagues, not least of those in the Freud-Jung group founded in London by Dr. William Kraemer in 1964. From the Introduction by Rosemary Gordon

This is a book of value, to be digested slowly. The first published work from this young author, who indeed has much promise.

By now, thankfully, the history of the Holocaust and its destruction of 6 million Jews by the Nazi war machine is widely known. Less well known is the fact that there were German nationals who opposed Hitler's regime, and who were subjected to equally brutal treatment. This book tells the true story of three brash teenagers -- only 15 years old at the beginning -- who dared to speak out against the Nazis by typing up leaflets and distributing them. They were caught, tried, and convicted. Their punishments ranged from death by the guillotine for the author and typist of the leaflets, to multi-year prison sentences. In a touching and very moving way one of the survivors tells his story of those events, the years of imprisonment, and, finally his return to normalcy after the war. In my opinion, it would be well for every teenager to read this book. It gives an understanding that war isn't fun, bravery can be painful, and the indomintable spirit can survive.

In a time when interdisciplinary theory has too often been content merely to splice together the tag ends of opposed psychoanalytic ideas, Rosemary Gordon emerges as a true builder of psychological bridges. The garce of her thinking offers the traveller not only safe passage between Freud and Jung and Winnicott and Klein, but also stunningly beautiful views of the still untrammeled depths of human experience that stretch between and below what these great pioneers and their followers have so far managed to develop. John E. Beebe

It is a pleasure and an honour to have been asked to write some introductory remarks to this highly important work by Rosemary Gordon, fittingly entitled "Bridges". I would venture to say that, like myself, the reader of this volume soon will come to appreciate the author's deep concern and special skill in building bridges - bridges in a great many directions. From the Foreword by Mario Jacoby

I have read the chapters of this book, which have been sent me and I am very impressed by Rosemary Gordon's approach to the topic. She has developed and expanded the idea of bridging as a way of perceiving and understanding Clinical, Social and Mythological material.

The book contains many useful ways of understanding various clinical and conceptual issues and problems, so that psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychologists, trained in other orientations, could find that they obtain not only illumination for their own approach, but also a deeper appreciation of the contributions of the Analytical Psychologists to the understanding of mental pain and mental phenomena.

In fact, Rosemary Gordon's book "Bridges - Metaphors for Psychic Processes" is itself a "Bridge", not only between ideas, conceps and clinical problems encountered by those working with mentally ill patients, but also between herself and other colleagues in the related disciplines of Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy and the Natural sceinces, any of whom could have their ways of thinking enriched by reading this book. Pearl King

While the work of Carl Gustav Jung is of immense importance to the development of psychological and philosophical thought in the 20th century, the written works of Jung and many of his followers are framed within the historical context of the first half of the century. In more recent years, many volumes have been published to explain Jungian thought, often to popularize it, occasionally to excoriate it. This collection of essays edited by Polly Young Eisendrath and Terence Dawson is an excellent critical introduction to Jungian and post-Jungian thought from a 21st century perspective. While very readable, the essays are scholarly and avoid oversimplifying the ideas to make them more popularly palatable. In addition to being a useful introduction, the depth of the essays should make them interesting even to readers who are familiar with Jung and his work.

This collection of writings by some renowned psychotherapists, including Jean Houston and James Hillman, integrates the spiritual, creative, and psychological aspects of psychotherapy in the tradition of C.G. Jung. The authors skillfully draw upon the perennial spiritual traditions, as well as creative arts, mythology, and mysticism and integrate them with intelligence and grace into a psychology of the soul.

Jaffe's "Celebrating Soul" is a masterpiece of defining clarity of Jung's brooding labor over human consciousness and future of the human race. Admitting that he reads Jung to be " reawakened to a realm of meaning" often forgotten in the pressing "drama of daily life" puts one in direct contact with the spirit of this book.

I must say, Mssrs. Temple and Darkwood have the right idea, they do. The level of poppycock and unsavory balderdashery I am forced to endure in these most unpleasant times is simply intolerable, and these two right chaps are doing something about it.

Here they have produced something first-class, an assault on the doggerel fed to erstwhile gentlemen by television, so-called restaurants with foul yellow letters for signs, bad manners of all kinds, and worst of all the foul institution of forced labor. You know, the kind that my servants pay rent with?

As for myself, I prefer to work in more subtle ways-- my albino manservant fetches my Persian slippers, lights my best pipe, and as I don my Fez he manicures my toes whilst I plot the downfall of those hideous, beeping contraptions everyone is glued to these days... and let Gustav and Vic do all the hard work for me. I'm throughly entertained.

Translation: Buy this book, get into a hot bath, and laugh your head off as you learn the ways of Counter-Vulgarity.

This is Volume 10 of the Collected Works of Carl Jung (1875-1961), "Civilization in Transition". Unlike some of the other volumes in the Collected Works, this is a not a single document, but rather a collection of essays spanning four decades. All of them are concerned with some aspect of societal issues at large. Jung writes about anthropology ancient ("Archaic Man", 1931) and modern ("Woman in Europe", 1927). His topic range from the profoundly sober ("After the Catastrophe", 1945) to the seemingly absurd ("Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth", 1958). He explores professional issues in "The State of Psychotherapy Today" (1934) and "The Complications of America Psychology" (1959). He explores the interfaces of psychology with the moral ("Good and Evil in Analytic Psychology", 1959) and the spiritual ("What India Can Teach Us", 1939). In my mind, the gem of the collection is "The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future)" (1957), in which Jung explores the implications of psychological development, and the lack thereof, on the broadest scale of history. In Jung's view, the configuration of the conscious and the unconscious is the most important parameter in the life of an individual, and insofar as aspects of this configuration are identical across individuals in a culture, these aspect shape and constrain the development of the culture; that, in a nutshell, is the topic of this book.