Carl Gustav Jung merged Eastern mysticism with Western psychology, brought scientific respectability to religion, laid the foundation for 'the New age', and is second only to freud in influence and importance. So it is easy to see why some people consider him a genius. But others ....
Put it this way: Some people are so good that all we can do is look up to them. He was a great man who made great mistakes. The two most (in) famous events in Jung's life were his break with Freud and his sojourn with the Nazis. Most book on Jung minimize his Nazi period. Author and psychologist Jon Platania, finds Nazism too hideous to minimize, so he tells this part of the story without pulling any punches.
About Author : Jon Platania is a clinical and health psychologist in private practice in Berkeley. He completed his PhD at the Wright Institute and his post-doctoral training at the Psychology Center at the University of California. He is a graduate of the Psychotherapy Institute. He is an integrative analytic psychologist and a student of the mind-body relationship He teaches yoga in Berkeley.
Joe Lee is the author and illustrator of Clowns for Beginners, The Dante Primer, and Dreams of Every Man. He is a graduate of Indiana University with a degree in history, and perhaps more importanty, from the ringling brothers, barnum and Bailey Clown College. He presently resides in Bloomington, Indiana.
Contents : * Jung, The Life * Mothers, Fathers, Saints and Sinners * Jung, Freud, Intimacy and Betrayal * Jung's Dark Night of the Soul * Jung, Freud and the Holocaust * Jung, The Work * The Foundations of Jungian Psychology * The Structure of the Psyche * The Personality Types * The Dynamic of the Archetype * Jungian Analytic Psychology * The Psychology of Religion * The Psychology of Alchemy * The Psychology of Art * The Psychology of Sexuality * Comments from Another Dimension * Appendix * Chapter Notes * Glossary * Collected Works * Bibliography * Index