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Jungian theories and clinical approaches to the central therapeutic and developmental issue of abandonment are featured with topics covering early infancy, the creative woman, transformation, and others.
Contents:
Michael Fordham - Abandonment in Infancy
Marion Woodman - Abandonment in the Creative Woman
Jeffrey Satinover - At the Mercy of Another: Abandonment and Restitution in Psychosis and Psychotic Character
Patricia Berry-Hillman - Some Dream Motifs Accompanying the Abandonment of an Analytic Practice
Harriet Gordon Machtiger - Perilous Beginnings: Loss, Abandonment, and Transformation
Renaldo Maduro - Abandonment and Deintegration of the Primary Self
Gilda Frantz - Birth's Cruel Secret: I am my own Lost Mother To my own Sad Child
William Willeford - Abandonment, Wish, and Hope in the Blues
Tristan 0. Cornes - Symbol and Ritual in Melancholia: The Archetype of The Divine Victim
SERIES EDITORS:
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a supervising training analyst and former president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). His most recent books include Outside Inside and All Around, Minding the Self and The Principle of Individuation. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He lectures internationally on topics related to Analytical Psychology and its applications in the contemporary world. He is publisher emeritus of Chiron Publications and is the focus of many Asheville Jung Center online seminars.
Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, trained in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous books, including The Borderline Personality: Vision and Healing, Narcissism and Character Transformation, and The Black Nightgown: The Fusional Complex and the Unlived Life as well as the co-editor of the Chiron Clinical Series. He is the director of the Foundation for Research in Jungian Psychology.