1st Edition

Michael Fordham Innovations in Analytical Psychology

By James Astor Copyright 1995
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

Michael Fordham's immense contribution to analytical psychology has been marked by its combination of practical and theoretical genius. Before retirement he ran a full clinical practice alongside the co-editorship of The Collected Works of Jung , development of the Society of Analytical Psychology and its child and adult trainings, and a fifteen-year editorship of the Journal of Analytical... Read more
Prologue; Chapter 1 Thinking into feeling; Chapter 2 Jung’s psychological model; Chapter 3 Jung and Fordham; Chapter 4 The self in infancy and childhood; Chapter 5 Ego development in infancy and childhood; Chapter 6 Archetypes; Chapter 7 Autism; Chapter 8 The discovery of the syntonic transference, and of the importance of analysing childhood; Chapter 9 Countertransference, interaction and not knowing beforehand; Chapter 10 Defences of the self, projective identification and identity; Chapter 11 Christian experience, mysticism and the self; Chapter 12 Synchronicity; Chapter 13 Afterword;

Biography

James Astor is a training analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London and a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.

'This book will provide a useful amplication of Fordham's own work for students of analytical psyhology, and a sound introduction to it for analysts interested in understanding connections between post-Jungian and post-Kleinian thought.' - Oxford Psychotherapy Society Bulletin 24 November 1996