This Festschrift celebrates Murray Stein, a man whose life and influence within Analytical Psychology has spanned several continents, wildly different cultures, several sweeping societal shifts, and now enters his ninth decade. He was forged in an American crucible, strengthened in Europe, and eventually matured into a world-wide phenomenon.
And don’t miss the remarkable collectiion of essays published in his honor now available from Chiron Publications! These essays explore individuation in varied ways and reveal Dr. Stein’s extensive impact on the world of Jungian psychoanalysis. An ambassador for post-Jungians, his own writings and the publication of others through his founding of Chiron Publications added valuable and novel insights bout subjects as wide-ranging as Christianity, masculine psychology, and the practice of Jungian analysis.
The diverse topics contained in these essays reflect the fertile, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective that has characterized Dr. Stein’s unique blend of scholarship, personal warmth, and far-reaching vision. From the times of the Delphic Oracle psychotherapists have illuminated the inner landscape where psyche dwells. Dr. Stein has witnessed countless developments and challenges in the decades after Jung’s death. His gentle, wise stewardship reflects what Guindi says about individuation, it is “a testimony of the inner process”. And Dr. Stein’s lifework succeeds at re-enchanting a world stripped of mystery and meaning by modernity as Roderick Main and Len Cruz observe.
After more than five decades of remarkable contributions, Murray Stein’s lifework remains relevant and through his impact on the K-pop band BTS, he has appealed to a new generation of seekers after inner gold. This is a testament to a highly individuated man who fully demonstrates an ongoing individuation, and we are eager to see what his next decade will bring.
What if a spirit from your past could guide you into your future? Beautifully illustrated, The Letters of Hope Street hints at how synchronicity occurs at just the right time to nudge us into our future.
This is an ideal read for both the young adult and any avid reader.
…“Synchronicity. It’s when something occurs on the outside world that seems to coincide with the inner world of the individual. So, in your case, you were interested in finding out more about me, so I was called to help you. The bird that alighted on my grave was another little message that I was near. It is my soul bird. Symbols can manifest into the outside world that are connected to another world. Time doesn’t exist in the other world. The past, present and future are all one.” (excerpt from The Letters of Hope Street)
What surprises await us with our first encounter with the unconscious, coincidence, and mysterious ways of knowing? Dizzy’s portal into these realms that were explored by the great Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung is an engaging and ultimately joyful tale of such first encounters. Young readers will be delighted by Dizzy’s discovery that the places she draws can be revisited in her dreams. Older readers will resonate with the deeper truths that Dizzy, like all of us, must discover for herself. Dizzy and the Dreams is a book for all ages.
Marie Newton was born near Liverpool, UK. She studied for a degree in English literature and history at John Moores University, Liverpool. She enjoys creative writing and is the author of The Letters of Hope Street and Dizzy and the Dreams. She lives in Leicester, UK.
Also Available from Chiron Publications
The Mythmaker
A Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner, The Mythmaker is a personal myth, a fiction, based on author and depth psychologist Dr. Mary Harrell’s life. After the sudden death of her mother, seven young children and an overwhelmed father were left to figure out what to do. Acknowledging that seminal happenings enwombed in our past seek re-membering, and in the tradition of personal mythtelling, Dr. Harrell, began a writer’s journey, to re-collect the meaning of her story. She proceeded in a series of spiralic returns gathering meaningful shards of symbolic experience.
Join us for this free online event celebrating Murray Stein’s 80th birthday. We will be launching Chiron’s new book, Individuation Psychology: Essays in Honor of Murray Stein. Contributors to the book will be offering reflections on Murray’s long career and profound impact on analytical psychology.
Chiron Publications is honored to publish a Festschrift celebrating Murray Stein, a man whose life and influence within Analytical Psychology has spanned several continents, wildly different cultures, several sweeping societal shifts, and now enters his ninth decade. He was forged in an American crucible, strengthened in Europe, and eventually matured into a world-wide phenomenon.
These essays explore individuation in varied ways and reveal Dr. Stein’s extensive impact on the world of Jungian psychoanalysis. An ambassador for post-Jungians, his own writings and the publication of others through his founding of Chiron Publications added valuable and novel insights about subjects as wide-ranging as Christianity, masculine psychology, and the practice of Jungian analysis.
The diverse topics contained in these essays reflect the fertile, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective that has characterized Dr. Stein’s unique blend of scholarship, personal warmth, and far-reaching vision. From the times of the Delphic Oracle psychotherapists have illuminated the inner landscape where psyche dwells. Dr. Stein has witnessed countless developments and challenges in the decades after Jung’s death. His gentle, wise stewardship reflects what Guindi says about individuation, it is “a testimony of the inner process”. And Dr. Stein’s lifework succeeds at re-enchanting a world stripped of mystery and meaning by modernity as Roderick Main and Len Cruz observe.
After more than five decades of remarkable contributions, Murray Stein’s lifework remains relevant and through his impact on the K-pop band BTS, he has appealed to a new generation of seekers after inner gold. This is a testament to a highly individuated man who fully demonstrates an ongoing individuation, and we are eager to see what his next decade will bring.
-Introduction – Prima Materia: A Tale of Two Urinals by Steven Buser, Co-Editor
-Introduction – From Adherent to Individualist to Sage: Observations on C.G. Jung and Murray Stein by Len Cruz, Co-Editor
On Individuation
-Chapter 1 – Individuation Psychology: A Testament to “The Outer Reaches of Individuation” by Joe Cambray
-Chapter 2 – Individuation As Testimony of Inner Process by Magi Guindi
-Chapter 3 – Individuation as Re-enchantment by Roderick Main
-Chapter 4 – In the Still World of the Heart (In des Herzens stille Welt): Reflections on Goethe and Individuation Psychology by Paul Bishop
-Chapter 5 – Active Imagination and Testament: A Window on the Other Side of Life by Chiara Tozzi
-Chapter 6 – Seeking the Divine: Reflections on Steinbeck’s “To a God Unknown” by Robert Mercurio
-Chapter 7 – An Interview with Murray Stein in Celebration of his 80th Birthday by Jan Wiener
-Chapter 8 – Jung’s Dream of the Arab Prince by John Beebe
-Chapter 9 – “Love…can unite opposites and reverse the paradox”: The Individuation Process of the Medieval Mystic Hadewijch by Maria Grazia Calzà
-Chapter 10 – Schopenhauer: The Grand Disabuser by Ann Casement
-Chapter 11 – Individuation, Soul Making, and Cultural Complexes by Thomas Singer
-Chapter 12 – Balancing: Weight, Wings, and Wind by Linda Carter
-Chapter 13 – Psychological Types and the Individuation of Unique Personality by James Johnson
-Chapter 14 – Who is a Friend?: Friendship in the Process of Individuation by Henry Abramovitch
Crossing Borders
-Chapter 15 – The Transformative Plumbed Serpent of the Americas: Quetzalcoatl by Nancy Furlotti
-Chapter 16 – Individuation and Pre-Hispanic Mythology: A Tribute to Murray Stein by Patricia Michan
-Chapter 17 – The Self and the Heart, Individuation Psychology and Chinese Culture by Heyong Shen
-Chapter 18 – “Let it happen”: Wei Wu-Wei for Individuation by Ann Chia-Yi Li
-Chapter 19 – Approaching Zen Buddhism via Individuation Psychology by Mari Yoshikawa
-Chapter 20 – Individuation Theory and Practice: The Promising Emergence of a Nonbinary Transcendent “Third” Between Temporal Depth Psychology and Non-Temporal Dzogchen Psychology by Jim Manganiello
-Biographies
Praise for Murray Stein
“Murray has helped unlock the significance of Jung for making sense of (and responding to) the challenges of the twenty-first century. It is therefore an honour as well as a great pleasure to contribute to this Festschrift for Murray Stein, and to join with Chiron in celebrating his work as a Jungian who is a scholar—and a gentleman.”
– Paul Bishop
“Murray Stein’s capacity to carry joy and pleasure on one shoulder while carrying the sorrows that life brings on the other—simultaneously—is a lifetime achievement. A well-known leader for many years, he has consistently held and maintained perspective and an overview of the worldwide Jungian community in remarkable ways.”
– Linda Carter
“Analyst, author, academic, administrator – Murray excels in every arena in which his positive attributes are abundantly on display. Above all, he exudes innate authority – a rare quality in the psychoanalytic profession – where he is an able spokesman for that international field.”
– Ann Casement
“Murray is a special human being, so full of life and creativity. As Erich Neumann has described in his books on the nature of creativity, Murray is definitely one of the ‘Great Individuals’ who is in touch with the creative essence of the unitary reality, that transpersonal realm that creates new light. It has been and continues to be a privilege to know him.”
– Nancy Furlotti
“Murray’s writing is often soaked in the hermetic secret sauce needed to transform letters, words and paragraphs into music, music for the inner ear. He is a judicious student of Jung’s work and a capable keeper of the flame. Murray’s own original work has given rise to an individuation psychology that extends and deepens what has gone before it. His words carry the melodic harmony needed to convey psychological meaning, meaning that lays far beyond the reach of the intellect. Murray’s work helped bring Jung’s sage individuation sheet music notations into song.”
– Dr. Jim Manganiello
The Murray Stein Collection from Chiron Publications
Audiobooks Available for Volumes 1 – 5
Volumes 1-5 of the Collected Writings of Murray Stein are now available as audiobooks.
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP-ZURICH). He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (1977) and of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (1980). He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012.
He has lectured internationally and authored countless papers and well over 45 books, including Jung’s Treatment of Christianity, In Midlife, Jung’s Map of the Soul, Minding the Self, Outside Inside and All Around and Jung’s Red Book for Our Time Volume 1 through 5 (co-edited with Thomas Arzt).
He is currently preparing his Collected Writings, seven volumes of which have been published to date. He lives in Switzerland and has a private practice in Zurich and from his home in Goldiwil.
Join us for this free online event celebrating Murray Stein’s 80th birthday. We will be launching Chiron’s new book, Individuation Psychology: Essays in Honor of Murray Stein. Contributors to the book will be offering reflections on Murray’s long career and profound impact on analytical psychology.
Chiron Publications is honored to publish a Festschrift celebrating Murray Stein, a man whose life and influence within Analytical Psychology has spanned several continents, wildly different cultures, several sweeping societal shifts, and now enters his ninth decade. He was forged in an American crucible, strengthened in Europe, and eventually matured into a world-wide phenomenon.
These essays explore individuation in varied ways and reveal Dr. Stein’s extensive impact on the world of Jungian psychoanalysis. An ambassador for post-Jungians, his own writings and the publication of others through his founding of Chiron Publications added valuable and novel insights about subjects as wide-ranging as Christianity, masculine psychology, and the practice of Jungian analysis.
The diverse topics contained in these essays reflect the fertile, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective that has characterized Dr. Stein’s unique blend of scholarship, personal warmth, and far-reaching vision. From the times of the Delphic Oracle psychotherapists have illuminated the inner landscape where psyche dwells. Dr. Stein has witnessed countless developments and challenges in the decades after Jung’s death. His gentle, wise stewardship reflects what Guinid says about individuation, it is “a testimony of the inner process”. And Dr. Stein’s lifework succeeds at re-enchanting a world stripped of mystery and meaning by modernity as Roderick Main and Len Cruz observe.
After more than five decades of remarkable contributions, Murray Stein’s lifework remains relevant and through his impact on the K-pop band BTS, he has appealed to a new generation of seekers after inner gold. This is a testament to a highly individuated man who fully demonstrates an ongoing individuation, and we are eager to see what his next decade will bring.
-Introduction – Prima Materia: A Tale of Two Urinals byvSteven Buser, Co-Editor
-Introduction – From Adherent to Individualist to Sage: Observationsbon C.G. Jung and Murray Stein by Len Cruz, Co-Editor
On Individuation
-Chapter 1 – Individuation Psychology: A Testament to “The Outer Reaches of Individuation” by Joe Cambray
-Chapter 2 – Individuation As Testimony of Inner Process by Magi Guindi
-Chapter 3 – Individuation as Re-enchantment by Roderick Main
-Chapter 4 – In the Still World of the Heart (In des Herzens stille Welt): Reflections on Goethe and Individuation Psychology by Paul Bishop
-Chapter 5 – Active Imagination and Testament: A Window on the Other Side of Life by Chiara Tozzi
-Chapter 6 – Seeking the Divine: Reflections on Steinbeck’s “To a God Unknown” by Robert Mercurio
-Chapter 7 – An Interview with Murray Stein in Celebration of his 80th Birthday by Jan Wiener
-Chapter 8 – Jung’s Dream of the Arab Prince by John Beebe
-Chapter 9 – “Love…can unite opposites and reverse the paradox”: The Individuation Process of the Medieval Mystic Hadewijch by Maria Grazia Calzà
-Chapter 10 – Schopenhauer: The Grand Disabuser by Ann Casement
-Chapter 11 – Individuation, Soul Making, and Cultural Complexes by Thomas Singer
-Chapter 12 – Balancing: Weight, Wings, and Wind by Linda Carter
-Chapter 13 – Psychological Types and the Individuation of Unique Personality by James Johnson
-Chapter 14 – Who is a Friend?: Friendship in the Process of Individuation by Henry Abramovitch
Crossing Borders
-Chapter 15 – The Transformative Plumbed Serpent of the Americas: Quetzalcoatl by Nancy Furlotti
-Chapter 16 – Individuation and Pre-Hispanic Mythology: A Tribute to Murray Stein by Patricia Michan
-Chapter 17 – The Self and the Heart, Individuation Psychology and Chinese Culture by Heyong Shen
-Chapter 18 – “Let it happen”: Wei Wu-Wei for Individuation by Ann Chia-Yi Li
-Chapter 19 – Approaching Zen Buddhism via Individuation Psychology by Mari Yoshikawa
-Chapter 20 – Individuation Theory and Practice: The Promising Emergence of a Nonbinary Transcendent “Third” Between Temporal Depth Psychology and Non-Temporal Dzogchen Psychology by Jim Manganiello
-Biographies
Praise for Murray Stein
“Murray has helped unlock the significance of Jung for making sense of (and responding to) the challenges of the twenty-first century. It is therefore an honour as well as a great pleasure to contribute to this Festschrift for Murray Stein, and to join with Chiron in celebrating his work as a Jungian who is a scholar—and a gentleman.”
– Paul Bishop
“Murray Stein’s capacity to carry joy and pleasure on one shoulder while carrying the sorrows that life brings on the other—simultaneously—is a lifetime achievement. A well-known leader for many years, he has consistently held and maintained perspective and an overview of the worldwide Jungian community in remarkable ways.”
– Linda Carter
“Analyst, author, academic, administrator – Murray excels in every arena in which his positive attributes are abundantly on display. Above all, he exudes innate authority – a rare quality in the psychoanalytic profession – where he is an able spokesman for that international field.”
– Ann Casement
“Murray is a special human being, so full of life and creativity. As Erich Neumann has described in his books on the nature of creativity, Murray is definitely one of the ‘Great Individuals’ who is in touch with the creative essence of the unitary reality, that transpersonal realm that creates new light. It has been and continues to be a privilege to know him.”
– Nancy Furlotti
“Murray’s writing is often soaked in the hermetic secret sauce needed to transform letters, words and paragraphs into music, music for the inner ear. He is a judicious student of Jung’s work and a capable keeper of the flame. Murray’s own original work has given rise to an individuation psychology that extends and deepens what has gone before it. His words carry the melodic harmony needed to convey psychological meaning, meaning that lays far beyond the reach of the intellect. Murray’s work helped bring Jung’s sage individuation sheet music notations into song.”
– Dr. Jim Manganiello
The Murray Stein Collection from Chiron Publications
Audiobooks Available for Volumes 1 – 5
Volumes 1-5 of the Collected Writings of Murray Stein are now available as audiobooks.
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP-ZURICH). He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (1977) and of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (1980). He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012.
He has lectured internationally and authored countless papers and well over 45 books, including Jung’s Treatment of Christianity, In Midlife, Jung’s Map of the Soul, Minding the Self, Outside Inside and All Around and Jung’s Red Book for Our Time Volume 1 through 5 (co-edited with Thomas Arzt).
He is currently preparing his Collected Writings, seven volumes of which have been published to date. He lives in Switzerland and has a private practice in Zurich and from his home in Goldiwil.
Chiron Publications is honored to publish a Festschrift celebrating Murray Stein, a man whose life and influence within Analytical Psychology has spanned several continents, wildly different cultures, several sweeping societal shifts, and now enters his ninth decade. He was forged in an American crucible, strengthened in Europe, and eventually matured into a world-wide phenomenon.
These essays explore individuation in varied ways and reveal Dr. Stein’s extensive impact on the world of Jungian psychoanalysis. An ambassador for post-Jungians, his own writings and the publication of others through his founding of Chiron Publications added valuable and novel insights about subjects as wide-ranging as Christianity, masculine psychology, and the practice of Jungian analysis.
The diverse topics contained in these essays reflect the fertile, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective that has characterized Dr. Stein’s unique blend of scholarship, personal warmth, and far-reaching vision. From the times of the Delphic Oracle psychotherapists have illuminated the inner landscape where psyche dwells. Dr. Stein has witnessed countless developments and challenges in the decades after Jung’s death. His gentle, wise stewardship reflects what Guinid says about individuation, it is “a testimony of the inner process”. And Dr. Stein’s lifework succeeds at re-enchanting a world stripped of mystery and meaning by modernity as Roderick Main and Len Cruz observe.
After more than five decades of remarkable contributions, Murray Stein’s lifework remains relevant and through his impact on the K-pop band BTS, he has appealed to a new generation of seekers after inner gold. This is a testament to a highly individuated man who fully demonstrates an ongoing individuation, and we are eager to see what his next decade will bring.
-Introduction – Prima Materia: A Tale of Two Urinals byvSteven Buser, Co-Editor
-Introduction – From Adherent to Individualist to Sage: Observationsbon C.G. Jung and Murray Stein by Len Cruz, Co-Editor
On Individuation
-Chapter 1 – Individuation Psychology: A Testament to “The Outer Reaches of Individuation” by Joe Cambray
-Chapter 2 – Individuation As Testimony of Inner Process by Magi Guindi
-Chapter 3 – Individuation as Re-enchantment by Roderick Main
-Chapter 4 – In the Still World of the Heart (In des Herzens stille Welt): Reflections on Goethe and Individuation Psychology by Paul Bishop
-Chapter 5 – Active Imagination and Testament: A Window on the Other Side of Life by Chiara Tozzi
-Chapter 6 – Seeking the Divine: Reflections on Steinbeck’s “To a God Unknown” by Robert Mercurio
-Chapter 7 – An Interview with Murray Stein in Celebration of his 80th Birthday by Jan Wiener
-Chapter 8 – Jung’s Dream of the Arab Prince by John Beebe
-Chapter 9 – “Love…can unite opposites and reverse the paradox”: The Individuation Process of the Medieval Mystic Hadewijch by Maria Grazia Calzà
-Chapter 10 – Schopenhauer: The Grand Disabuser by Ann Casement
-Chapter 11 – Individuation, Soul Making, and Cultural Complexes by Thomas Singer
-Chapter 12 – Balancing: Weight, Wings, and Wind by Linda Carter
-Chapter 13 – Psychological Types and the Individuation of Unique Personality by James Johnson
-Chapter 14 – Who is a Friend?: Friendship in the Process of Individuation by Henry Abramovitch
Crossing Borders
-Chapter 15 – The Transformative Plumbed Serpent of the Americas: Quetzalcoatl by Nancy Furlotti
-Chapter 16 – Individuation and Pre-Hispanic Mythology: A Tribute to Murray Stein by Patricia Michan
-Chapter 17 – The Self and the Heart, Individuation Psychology and Chinese Culture by Heyong Shen
-Chapter 18 – “Let it happen”: Wei Wu-Wei for Individuation by Ann Chia-Yi Li
-Chapter 19 – Approaching Zen Buddhism via Individuation Psychology by Mari Yoshikawa
-Chapter 20 – Individuation Theory and Practice: The Promising Emergence of a Nonbinary Transcendent “Third” Between Temporal Depth Psychology and Non-Temporal Dzogchen Psychology by Jim Manganiello
-Biographies
Celebrate with Murray Stein on
His 80th Birthday
Saturday, September 2
10 a.m. EDT
via Zoom
Join us for this free online event celebrating Murray Stein’s 80th birthday. We will be launching Chiron’s new book, Individuation Psychology: Essays in Honor of Murray Stein. Contributors to the book will be offering reflections on Murray’s long career and profound impact on analytical psychology.
“Murray has helped unlock the significance of Jung for making sense of (and responding to) the challenges of the twenty-first century. It is therefore an honour as well as a great pleasure to contribute to this Festschrift for Murray Stein, and to join with Chiron in celebrating his work as a Jungian who is a scholar—and a gentleman.”
– Paul Bishop
“Murray Stein’s capacity to carry joy and pleasure on one shoulder while carrying the sorrows that life brings on the other—simultaneously—is a lifetime achievement. A well-known leader for many years, he has consistently held and maintained perspective and an overview of the worldwide Jungian community in remarkable ways.”
– Linda Carter
“Analyst, author, academic, administrator – Murray excels in every arena in which his positive attributes are abundantly on display. Above all, he exudes innate authority – a rare quality in the psychoanalytic profession – where he is an able spokesman for that international field.”
– Ann Casement
“Murray is a special human being, so full of life and creativity. As Erich Neumann has described in his books on the nature of creativity, Murray is definitely one of the ‘Great Individuals’ who is in touch with the creative essence of the unitary reality, that transpersonal realm that creates new light. It has been and continues to be a privilege to know him.”
– Nancy Furlotti
“Murray’s writing is often soaked in the hermetic secret sauce needed to transform letters, words and paragraphs into music, music for the inner ear. He is a judicious student of Jung’s work and a capable keeper of the flame. Murray’s own original work has given rise to an individuation psychology that extends and deepens what has gone before it. His words carry the melodic harmony needed to convey psychological meaning, meaning that lays far beyond the reach of the intellect. Murray’s work helped bring Jung’s sage individuation sheet music notations into song.”
– Dr. Jim Manganiello
The Murray Stein Collection from Chiron Publications
Audiobooks Available for Volumes 1 – 5
Volumes 1-5 of the Collected Writings of Murray Stein are now available as audiobooks.
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP-ZURICH). He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (1977) and of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (1980). He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012.
He has lectured internationally and authored countless papers and well over 45 books, including Jung’s Treatment of Christianity, In Midlife, Jung’s Map of the Soul, Minding the Self, Outside Inside and All Around and Jung’s Red Book for Our Time Volume 1 through 5 (co-edited with Thomas Arzt).
He is currently preparing his Collected Writings, seven volumes of which have been published to date. He lives in Switzerland and has a private practice in Zurich and from his home in Goldiwil.
The Power of Stories: Mythodrama: Conflict Management and Group Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents Using Stories
Volume 7 of the Zürich Lecture Series
Often lips are sealed, and delicate topics avoided, when children or adolescents are in a conflict situation or have experienced a trauma. Psychologists, psychotherapist, teachers are challenged and must find alternative ways to connect to the individual or group. Talking alone is not sufficient.
In this book by Allan Guggenbühl—Volume 7 of the Zürich Lecture Series—a therapeutic method and conflict management approach is presented, which is successfully employed in group work with children and adolescents in despair or in a conflict situation. Mythodramas main focus are specially selected stories, which mirror the issues of the respective group, connect to the issues of the group, and serve as an entrance to the imaginal. The book describes how the stories are selected, told, enacted, and linked to the issues and concerns of the group or individual.
Mythodrama is a potent method, based on Jungian psychology, which helps groups to move on, express their emotions, concerns, and get motivated to find solutions. Mythodrama has successfully been applied in groups consisting of traumaticised children or adolescents, violent youth, bullies, victims of aggression, adolescents with identity crises, etc. Mythodrama is also a method which is employed in conflict management in schools. The key elements of Mythodrama are Stories, Play, Imagination, Drama, and Concrete Changes.
Allan Guggenbühl is a Psychologist & Jungian Psychotherapist in Zürich, Switzerland; Prof emeritus of the University of Education of the State of Zürich; Director of the Institute for Conflict management (IKM AG) in Zürich; and former director of the department for group psychotherapy at the education counselling centre in Bern.
He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and Zürich, Switzerland. He is one the most renowned child and adolescent psychologist of Switzerland and an accomplished book author in the German speaking world.
Guggenbühl gives lectures on a regular basis in China, Japan, and the neighbouring EU-countries of Switzerland. He is an author of numerous articles (NZZ) and has written books on adolescents, wisdom, men, school, group therapy, conflict management, violence, and bullying.
His focus is the well-being of children and adolescents in conflict situations, be it in families, among peers or at school. He developed Mythodrama, an approach in group therapy, which relies on specially selected stories, which enable children and adolescents to be aware of their concerns, voice their problems, and find solutions.
Other Books in the
Zürich Lecture Series
Published by Chiron Publications
Volume 1 – Where Soul Meets Matter: Clinical and Social Applications of Jungian Sandplay Therapy
by Eva Pattis Zoja
Eva Pattis Zoja explores the psyche’s astonishing capacity and determination to regulate itself by creating images and narratives as soon as a free and protected space for expression is provided. A variety of examples from analytic practice with adults and from psychosocial projects with children in vulnerable situations illustrate how sandplay can be used in different therapeutic settings.
Volume 2 – ‘Two Souls Alas’ : Jung’s Two Personalities and the Making Of Analytical Psychology
by Mark Saban
In his memoir, Memories Dreams Reflections, Carl Jung tells us that, as a child, he had the experience of possessing two personalities. ‘Two Souls Alas’ is the first book to suggest that Jung’s experience of the difficult dynamic between these two personalities not only informs basic principles behind the development of Jung’s psychological model but underscores the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology as a whole.
Reading Goethe at Midlife reveals the remarkable symmetry between the ideas and Jung and Goethe. Jung’s analysis of the stages of life, and his advice to heed the “call of the self,” are brought into the conjunction with Goethe’s emphasis on the importance of hope, showing an underlying continuity of thought and relevance from ancient wisdom, via German classicism to analytical psychology.
Patterns of Creative Imagination as Seen Through Art
by Paul Brutsche
We don’t know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air?
This book does not claim to reveal this secret. It does not attempt to reduce creativity to a “nothing but,” for example to explain it as a special ability of certain creative individuals with special abilities. On the contrary, it is about exploring the fullness and variety of this amazing power, which is the basis of all cultural, artistic, scientific and spiritual activity of man, without attributing it to a simple cause.
In this rich and poetically written book, Erel Shalit “calls attention to the dream and its images along the nocturnal axis that leads us from fate to destiny.” He takes us on a journey from ancient history, beginning with the first documented dream, that of Gilgamesh, to Adam and Eve and the serpent, to Joseph in Egypt as the Pharaoh’s dream interpreter, through ancient Greece to the Asklepion, to Swedenborg’s visions, to our world today through the eyes of Freud, Jung, and science, and finally to the process of active imagination to reveal the workings of Mercurius and the transcendent function.
This work offers a profound philosophical and psychological exploration of the multi-dimensional significance of home and the interwoven themes of homelessness and homesickness and contemporary global culture. Home is a particular dwelling place, as a cultural or national identity, as a safe temenos in therapy, and as a metaphor for the individuation process are analyzed expertly from multidisciplinary perspectives and, more poignantly, through the sharing of diverse narratives that bear witness to lives lived and endured from memories of homes lost and regained.
Volume 8 – Breaking The Spell Of Disenchantment: Mystery, Meaning, And Metaphysics
In The Work Of C. G. Jung
by Roderick Main
One of the most powerful narratives gripping scientists, intellectuals, and the general culture in Europe during the early decades of the twentieth century was that the world had become disenchanted: stripped of genuine mystery, lacking inherent meaning, and unrelated to any spiritual or divine reality.
In Breaking the Spell of Disenchantment, Roderick Main examines various ways in which C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology, developed during this same period, can be seen to challenge that dominant narrative.
