1st Edition

Jungian Psychology and the Human Sciences

Edited By Roger Brooke, Camilla Giambonini, Brianna Stich Copyright 2025
258 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume brings together selected papers from the 2021 IAJS conference focusing on Jungian psychology’s place within the broader human science field, with contributions providing an interdisciplinary examination of fields such as psychoanalysis, feminism, critical thought, and eco-psychology. The historical foundations of Jungian thought in phenomenology, hermeneutics, the significance of... Read more

Introduction: Jungian Psychology and the Human Sciences

Roger Brooke

1. The Role of the Good-Enough All-Rounder in Jungian Studies: “Clinic and Academy” Revisited

Andrew Samuels

Part 1: Philosophical Foundations

2. The Way of the Daimon: From Jung’s Red Book to the Alchemical Imagination and the Reddening of Psychology

Stanton Marlan

3. In the Gap between Phenomenology and Jungian Psychology: Cultivating a "Poetics" of Psychological Life

Robert D. Romanyshyn

4. Two Jungs: Two Sciences?

Mark Saban

5. Archetypes, Embodiment, and Spontaneous Thought

Erik Goodwyn

Part 2: The Social and Political Horizons 

6. Healing Is Political

Robin McCoy Brooks

7. Hillman’s Ambivalence: An Inhuman Twist of Human Science

Michael P. Sipiora

8. Geography of Creative Thought: Walking with Freud and Nietzsche

Lucy Huskinson

9. An Archetypal Perspective on Anti-Homeless Architecture

Adam J. Schneider

10. Encounters with African Elephants: Transformative Gatherings

Gwenda Euvrard

11. Anatomy of a Vision: A Psychological Approach to the Papua New Guinea UFO Sightings, June 26–27, 1959

David J. Halperin

Part 3: Psychotherapy and Analysis

12. Jung’s Personal Confession

Betsy Cohen

13. Jung, Groddeck, and Analytic Technique

Marco Balenci

14. Jung and Kristeva: The Looking Glass between Self and Other

Susan E. Schwartz

15. Ressentiment: Its Phenomenology and Clinical Significance

John White

16. From Grievous to Grief

Fanny Brewster

Biography

Roger Brooke, PhD, ABPP, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh and a Board Certified Clinical Psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice. He is author of numerous articles on Jungian psychology, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy, but is best known for his book, Jung and Phenomenology, Classic Edition, (Routledge 1991/2015).

Camilla Giambonini, PhD, is a lecturer in forensic psychology at the University of Gloucestershire and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Jungian Studies. Her PhD thesis focused on teenage sexting and the psychosocial articulation of Jungian psychology. Currently, she is a psychodynamic psychotherapy trainee at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London.

Brianna Stich, MA, is a fourth-year doctoral student in clinical psychology at Duquesne University. Brianna is currently writing her dissertation on hoarded homes and the phenomenological and psychoanalytic meanings of their spaces, things, and interrelationship with the bodies which dwell there.