Comments on: Jung Blurred http://www.nautis.com/2005/08/01/node-421/ Jung, Sheldrake, Campbell, Bergson & Me Thu, 22 May 2008 20:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Don Williams http://www.nautis.com/2005/08/01/node-421/#comment-40 Don Williams Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:13:32 +0000 #comment-40 Unfortunately, Jungians who focus on psychotherapy and/or analysis and not on popularized archetypal themes go unnoticed. ...even by critics of "religious" Jungians. In my opinion, the best (sensible, smart) book out on Jung is : Introduction to Jungian Psychotherapy by David Sedgwick (Brunner-Routledge 2001). David is an analyst in Charlottesville VA. From his preface : "The book's larger hope is to refine or in some ways redefine Jungian thinking on psychotherapy so that Jungian work is not seen by others as a quasi-religious or symbolic matter, inapplicable to most patients in psychotherapy." Going back further, in 1988 I attempted to challenge the scientific status of Jung's archetypal theory and Freud's drive theory in a review of a book on sociobiology by David Barash. The review was published in the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal and is available at cgjungpage.org. Unfortunately, Jungians who focus on psychotherapy and/or analysis and not on popularized archetypal themes go unnoticed. …even by critics of “religious” Jungians.

In my opinion, the best (sensible, smart) book out on Jung is : Introduction to Jungian Psychotherapy by David Sedgwick (Brunner-Routledge 2001). David is an analyst in Charlottesville VA. From his preface : “The book’s larger hope is to refine or in some ways redefine Jungian thinking on psychotherapy so that Jungian work is not seen by others as a quasi-religious or symbolic matter, inapplicable to most patients in psychotherapy.”

Going back further, in 1988 I attempted to challenge the scientific status of Jung’s archetypal theory and Freud’s drive theory in a review of a book on sociobiology by David Barash. The review was published in the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal and is available at cgjungpage.org.

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