Jungian psychoanalyst Charlotte Mathes experienced a parent's worst nightmare-the death of her child. In this book, she describes her experience of struggling to find meaning and wholeness in one of the most shattering of experiences. That journey led her to Jungian archetypal psychology and to a heartfelt desire to help others come to terms with the profound sense of grief and loss that follows such an event.

The author tells her story of "personal knowing from walking the path of mother grief," while establishing a background that guides the reader through the steps and archetypes that mark the process of mourning. Through personal experience, myth, and stories, she shows how one can gain a renewed sense of inner and outer wholeness in life.

Charlotte Mathes helps parents discover the "myth" they have been living and shows ways to greater self-awareness, understanding, and wisdom. She also suggests practical resources such as movies, books, and music that help parents regain perspective and learn how and where to reach out for help.

This invaluable guide is written from experience and a profound psychological perspective that puts it all together in a holistic way that is accessible and helpful in a time of personal tragedy.

Chiron 2005      314pp.      paper: ISBN 978-1-888602-34-0     $19.95

The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals

Barbara Hannah, a student and a close friend of C.G. Jung, presents lectures on the symbolic meaning of several domestic and wild animals. According to Jung, the animal is sublime and, in fact, represents the "divine" side of the human psyche. He believed that animals live much more in contact with a "secret" order in nature itself and-far more than human beings-live in close contact with "absolute knowledge" of the unconscious. In contrast to humankind, the animal is the living being that follows its own inner laws beyond good and evil-and is, in this sense, superior.
Here Hannah shows how our animal nature can become the psychic source of renewal and natural wholeness.

The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals is volume 2 in the "Polarities of the Psyche" series.

Chiron 2006      413pp.      paper: ISBN 978-1-888602-33-3     $29.95

An in-depth study that stresses the importance of the imagination in the psychotherapy of borderline conditions. Psychoanalytic theory, object relations, and developmental approaches are combined with a Jungian archetypal orientation to delve into deep structures within the borderline sector and the analytic encounter.

C. G. Jung

E.A. Bennet's biography of C. G. Jung went to press just a few days before Jung's death in 1961. Over the preceding fifteen years, Bennet had met frequently with Jung at his home and stayed there as his guest. Their many talks-about Jung's childhood, his family, his career and the development of his ideas-yielded the material for this authorized biography. Thanks to Bennet's unique opportunities to hear Jung's personal perspective-on subjects from Freud to Hitler, and including a valuable correspondence about Aion, regarded as Jung's most "difficult" book-C.G. Jung sheds new light for today's scholars on Jung's work and on the man himself.

Chiron 2006     192pp.      paper: ISBN 978-1-888602-35-7     $19.95

An outstanding introduction to the spirit and practice of Jungian psychology. Analyzed by Jung, Humbert brings a unique understanding of Jung's ideas, developed over many years within the atmosphere of French psychoanalytic thought. Translated from French by Ronald Jalbert.

In the introduction to this collection of position papers, the editors write: "Everyone was talking about ethics in analytic practice, but always from the somewhat narrow perspective of who had been reported to have done what to whom, and what, in a behavioral sense, should be done about it. It seemed to us that in the fury of the contemporary discourse, the one uniquely Jungian aspect was missing, that is, the symbolic attitude."

This is a fascinating story, told here for the first time in detail, of Jung's friendships with Mary Mellon and J. B. Priestley. Mary Mellon was the founder of the Bollingen Series, which published Jung's Collected Works in English, and the wife of the famous American philanthropist Paul Mellon. J. B. Priestley was a well-known British author and journalist who interviewed Jung several times for the BBC. Both admired Jung and helped make his psychology known and recognized throughout the world. In this book, which uses the letters to trace the course of these two friendships, we get a glimpse of Jung the man, with "nose and ears," as his son Franz said of him--a remarkable genius but also a man with ordinary human strivings and flaws.

Complexes groups of associations arising out of the unconscious have been known and described in all cultures and are integral to the healthy psyche. Breuer first coined the term complexes to describe part personalities. Jung developed the concept further, assigning the shell of the complex with its amplifications and associations to the personal unconscious and postulating a core that is archetypal in nature and rooted in the collective unconscious.

In this book, Dieckmann fills a lacuna by developing a general theory of the complexes that gives both the student and the practicing analyst an overview of this concept for the purposes of diagnosis and therapy. Illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes and diagrams, Complexes provides a clear and orderly path through the chaotic contents of analysis.

by Carlos Amadeu Botelho Byington

Based on Jungian Symbolic Psychology, this book attributes an archetypal foundation to the ego defense mechanisms of psychoanalysis and describes the possibility of all psychological functions being creative or defensive. Analyzing Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, Byington describes envy functioning creatively and defensively in the Mozart-Salieri relationship. He goes on to demonstrate how psychoanalysis followed Genesis and the Christian doctrine of original sin, scientifically stigmatizing envy. He considers this a prejudice originated in the severe cultural pathology, which greatly distorted the Christian Myth by repressing creative envy due to its extraordinary revolutionary potential for individual and cultural development.

Chiron 2004   148pp ISBN 978-1-888602-30-2      $21.95

A thorough, readable explanation of Jung's theory of psychological types combined with a spiritual guide adapted from Native American teachings--the medicine wheel and its beautiful inner wheels, which guide the dances of living. A fascinating and clear meeting of Western and Native American cultures.

The internationally renowned Jungian analyst Lopez-Pedraza diagnoses the psychological illness at the core of modern society--the loss of embodied soulfulness in people's lives. In this study of the Greek god Dionysus, he offers insight for a cure. This book may be worth several years in psychotherapy, if one takes its message to heart. Dismemberment and cannibalism, Prometheus and Titanic nature, mystical experience, the communal aspect of Dionysiac worship, jazz, flamenco, and bullfighting are among the many twists and turns taken in this essay that wends its way through issues of the body and emotion to open hidden doors for psychotherapy and to cast new light on post-modern humanity.

Barbara Hannah, Jungian analyst and author, explores Jung's method of "active imagination," often considered the most powerful tool in analytical psychology for achieving direct contact with the unconscious and attaining greater inner awareness. Using historical and contemporary case studies, Hannah traces the human journey toward personal wholeness. This approach to confronting the unconscious is a healing process that applies to both men and women and deals in depth with the injured feminine as well as many powerful archetypal forces.

By Robert L. Moore

"If you would understand the deepest roots of terrorism, greed, and religious fanaticism, read Facing the Dragon. But be forewarned: you may find some offshoots in your own garden."-June Singer, Jungian analyst, author of Boundaries of the Soul
description: Structured around a series of lectures presented at the Jung Institute of Chicago in a program entitled "Jungian Psychology and Human Spirituality: Liberation from Tribalism in Religious Life," this book-length essay attacks the related problems of human evil, spiritual narcissism, secularism and ritual, and grandiosity. Moore dares to insist that we stop ignoring these issues and provides clear-sighted guidance for where to start and what to expect. Along the way, he pulls together many important threads from recent findings in theology, spirituality, and psychology and brings us to a point where we can conceive of embarking on a corrective course.

Chiron 2002 248pp.     ISBN 978-1-888602-21-0      $24.95

The Fountain of the Love of Wisdom

A commemorative volume in memory of Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz who is remembered as one of the most beloved and perhaps most important of Carl Jung's students. This is an important volume for the many readers of Jungian literature who have over the years come to appreciate the depth of insight and compassion of Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz.
It is comprised of fifty-five essays, poems, and reminiscences in memory of Jungian analyst and author Marie-Louise von Franz with additional material documenting her life and work, including a biographical sketch and chronology, eulogies and death announcements, birthday addresses, personal impressions, reactions by the Jungian community to the news of her death, reviews and lists of her published work in English, including books, articles, and films.

Chiron 2006      664pp.      paper: ISBN 978-1-888602-38-4   $29.95
Including 8pp. of color and 32pp. of b/w photos

The Transcendent is the bridge between the rational and irrational, the conscious and unconscious. Ulanov demonstrates the reality of the Transcendent through ten examples taken from her years of practice as a Jungian analyst. Her cases range from fatness and the female, masochistic suffering, parental relationships, follow-up treatment in patient/therapist sex, and the resolution of suicidal temptations.

Barz, an astrologer and Jungian analyst, leads us through the world of astrology, examining both its symbols and its symbolic nature. She explains that astrology itself is a symbolic system (not a science), thus its contents possess inherent archetypal qualities and significance. Her exploration of the planetary gods and their relationship to Jungian psychology open up a realm of psychic possibilities.

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart is the centre of individual divinity, innate morality, authenticity and integrity. The process of coming to the Heart and of realizing the person we were meant to be is what Carl Jung called 'Individuation' This path is full of moral challenges for anyone with the courage to take it.

Using Jung's premise that the main causes of psychological problems are conflicts of conscience, Ms. Becker takes the reader through the philosophical and spiritual aspects of the ethical dimensions of this individual journey toward wholeness. This book is a long overdue and unique contribution to the link between individuation and ethics.

"Reading The Heart of the Matter: Individuation as an Ethical Process was like sitting at a feast, having the opportunity to be fed from many sources. There is much that feeds us both intellectually and emotionally in this work. It provides a systematic and scholarly grounding toward the understanding the fundamental ethical urge/need within each human being." Shirley Halliday, Jungian Analyst and President of the British Columbia Association for Analytical Psychology.

"The Heart of the Matter is a thoughtful and thought-provoking work that provides a philosophical and psychological ground upon which archetypal images of the heart dance with conscious and unconscious attitudes, actions, vulnerabilities, oversights, and professional infractions of individuals and the collective" Brenda Weinberg, Psychotherapist and President of the Canadian Association of Sandplay Therapists.

Christina Becker is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Chiron 2004 164pp.     ISBN: 978-1-888602-27-2 paperback $24.95

This book is the compelling story of how the author's disfiguring scars guided her search for a connection to the mother who died at her birth, and ultimately led to her own psychological development. In this process, the scars became the sacred jewels that illuminated the pathway of self-understanding. Movingly told from a Jungian point of view and in the intimate context of analysis, it is not only the autobiography of a person with a life-long dedication to understanding the psyche, but also a portrayal of the unconscious as it reveals itself throughout the course of that person's life. As a journey of the soul, the book includes dreams, art work and active imagination-all ways of accessing the archetypal dimension underlying body symptoms.

Through focused work, Ms. Rothenberg explains, body symptoms and physical illness can help us to discover our personal myth. In her case, the journey led her to Africa to study the art of scarification. There she interviewed shamans who helped her unveil the symbolic and spiritual meaning behind her own physical and psychological scars. This book explores wounding in order to open us to healing. It is the tale of a life lived consciously and with great integrity. Included are a rich variety of color photographs of art work, of cultural artifacts and of her visits with West African shamans .

Published originally in 1976, this work has become a classic retelling of Jung's life and work by one of his most dedicated followers and intimate friends. Now back in print, this work deserves to occupy a place of importance in every Jungian library. It is a warm biographical account filled with anecdotes and made vibrantly alive by the wit and personality of a person who was herself transformed by Jung's spirit and analytic methods. Barbara Hannah, a painter and the daughter of an English Bishop, arrived in Zürich at a time when Jung was beginning his major life's work. She outlived him by some twenty years, teaching at the Jung Institute in Zürich and meeting with analysands until her death in the early 1980's at the age of 95.

In a spirited and accessible interpretation, Spoto presents at least four perspectives on Jung’s philosophy of typology, including an analysis of the popular Myers-Brigg Type Indicator. He shows where typology fits into Jung’s broader analytical work and illustrates how typology, while just a branch of the psychology of Jung, can lead to a deeper understanding of Jung’s entire model of the human personality.

Lectures on Jung's Aion

Volume 1 in a new series, Polarities in the Psyche, edited by Emmanuel Kennedy-Xypolitas

Aion, a major work from Jung's later years, has long been a source of fascination for a wide variety of scholars and thinkers. Presented here are two substantial commentaries concerning this rich and complex text by two important figures in Jung's life and work: Barbara Hannah and Marie-Louise von Franz.

Barbara Hannah delivered these lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich in 1957. Over the course of the lectures, she addresses each chapter of Aion, providing detail and in-depth analysis for selected passages and offering the reader suggestions for further sources and study. Well-paced and thoughtfully planned, she scans the work from beginning to end, bringing many subtle nuances to light.

In a private interview with Claude Drey conducted in her home in the spring of 1965, Marie-Louise von Franz takes a close look at chapter fourteen of Aion, "The Structure and Dynamics of the Self." Published here for the first time, she offers a lively and free-flowing discussion of key sentences in the work.

This is the first volume in a new series edited by Emmanuel Kennedy-Xypolitas, Polarities in the Psyche, focusing on the broad theme of the opposites in the psyche. The next volume planned is The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals (forthcoming from Chiron Publications).

Chiron 2005      218pp.      paper: ISBN 978-1-888602-28-9     $19.95

Gendlin offers a variation on his famous "focusing" technique for working with one's own dreams. This helpful "how to" book derives questions from many existing theories to aid the dreamer in the process of interpretation. It teaches the reader to recognize certain bodily responses that may hold the key to a breakthrough.

Designed for both the beginner and the experienced clinician, this book serves as a reference for the basic methodological problems encountered in the practice of Jungian psychology. It covers areas such as initial interviews, scheduling of sessions and fees, methods of working with various age groups, and dream interpretation.

In Mythanalysis, mythographer and psychologist Pierre Solié pays particular attention to two myths about the Great Mother--those pertaining to the Babylonian goddess Tiamat and the Egyptian goddess Isis. He analyzes these myths using several developmental diagrams and proposes the idea of chiasma--which means cross--to account for the crossovers where psychological changes take place. Numerous clinical cases are also presented that support the use of myth in therapy.

On Life's Journey

C.G. Jung wrote, in The Development of Personality, "In every adult there lurks a child-an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention and education. That is the part of the human personality that wants to develop and become whole."

In this reflection on life's journey, Daniel Lindley applies the insights gleaned from many years of study of literature and psychoanalysis to show how we are "always becoming"-and always obligated to care for that archetypal child. Drawing upon psychological truths expressed by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Eliot and others, Lindley illuminates the process of individuation through personal experience, art and archetype. From birth to old age, he demonstrates, even in our separateness we share an archetypal ground. Thus, at any point in our lives, "The path we walk is not unknown; it has purpose and direction. We are living out stories that existed long before we did, and will be there long after we are gone."

Chiron 2006      172pp.      hardcover: ISBN 978-1-888602-40-1 $39.95
                                                      paper: ISBN 978-1-888602-36-4 $24.95

The author applies his experience and wisdom to link the world of Jung with the real world. He explores complex subjects and deep theories in a deceptively light style, employing his special wit and skill as a cartoonist.

Practicing wholeness is an everyday activity. Stein relates the practice of wholeness to many areas of life: inner experience; to religious beliefs, images, and rituals; to organizational dynamics and involvements; and to cultural paradigms. He sets out a general theory of wholeness integrating Jung's theory of instincts and archetypes. He then focuses on daily life and the clinical aspects of treatment that confront the practicing therapist and patient.

The Principle of Individuation

The Principle of Individuation suggests new approaches, on both personal and communal levels, for gaining freedom from the compulsion to repeat endlessly the dysfunctional patterns that have conditioned us. In this concise and contemporary account of the process of individuation, Murray Stein sets out its two basic movements and then examines the central role of numinous experience, the critical importance of initiation, and the unique psychic space required for its unfolding. Using psychological insights from Carl Jung's writings, from myths and fairytales, and from years of clinical experience, he offers a vivid description of this lifelong and dynamic process that will be useful to clinicians and the general public alike.

Chiron 2006      240pp.      paper: ISBN 978-1-888602-37-1     $19.95

This new combination of Jungian analysis and family therapy gives both systems the opportunity to further their combined mission toward health and wholeness. For Jungian analysts, their analytic container can expand to let in more of the world of marriage, family, and relationships. Likewise, family therapists can encounter the psyche wherever it appears--in a dream as well as the family. Included are two major essays by the editors on intergenerational family crisis and helping families through individuation in relationship.

Sporting events, seen from the perspective of both participant and spectator, have risen to the level of religious conviction over the years. The passion, the bond, and the sacrifice involved is shared by countless people fascinated with "the game."

The organization we work for has a psyche of its own, a "collective personality" and an organizational imagination, which goes to work on us, for better or for worse. In this volume, the work of analytical psychologists, organizational development consultants, and group relations theorists reflect on the contemporary enigma presiding over an organization's unconscious.

A pioneeering book that offers an exciting proposal for approaching therapeutic work from a perspective that emphasizes the feminine principle of holding and containment while also recognizing a necessary place for the masculine. Sullivan demonstrates the real possibility of an integrated practice with the potential to heal both men and women.

Barbara Hannah studies the psychic processes that move people to strive for wholeness of personality, an integration of all innate capacities. Since this inner drama manifests itself with special intensity in the lives of creative individuals, she has taken up the biographies and literary productions of five major English novelists-Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Webb, and Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte-along with one nonliterary artist-Branwell Bronte. Not only do Stevenson, Webb, and the four Brontes take on fresh, unsuspected dimensions, but the concepts of analytical psychology are also broadened and deepened as Barbara Hannah indicates how contemporary people may gain insight from these examples in their own efforts to strive towards wholeness.

A study of the human-dog bond and their history as companions to the human race, their roles in mythology and religion, and their appearance in dreams. Woloy, an analyst who works with a dog present in her office while seeing patients, explores the unique and often healing relationship between dogs and people.

Synchronicity

Based on real-life experiences - Begg's own and those of her clients - this is a simple and profound exposition of an idea that is often presented through the complicated mystification of physics or philosophy. Begg explores synchronicity as signposts and the universe's call of destiny. She describes in clear language how to recognise a synchronicity: i.e. if it is not an emotional response to the intersection of two different sorts of time or worlds - it is not a synchronicity.

Deike Begg is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist, an astrologer with a worldwide reputation and practice, Rebirther, and past-life therapist. She is the author of Rebirthing - Freedom from your Past, and co-author with her husband, Ean Begg, of On the Trail of Merlin and In Search of the Holy Grail and the Precious Blood. She is a member of the International Association for Jungian Studies, founding member of C.G. Jung Seminars Scotland and has lectured to Jungian groups all over the world.

Chiron 2004 136pp.     ISBN: 978-1-888602-31-9 paperback $19.95

Basing his study on Jung’s archetypal theory—especially that of initiation—Thresholds of Initiation represents thirty years of testing the theory in analytical practice. Joseph Henderson considers archetypes to be predictable patterns of inner conditioning that lead to certain essential changes and shows the parallels between individual psychological self-development and the rites that marked initiation in the past.

Dr. Henderson’s topics include the uninitiated; return of the mother; remaking a man; trial by strength; the rite of vision; thresholds of initiation; initiation and the principle of ego-development in adolescence; and initiation in the process of individuation.

This is essential reading for an understanding of the universal nature of initiation, especially as it relates traditional initiatory practices to Jung’s theory of archetypes.

Wilmer has a talent for taking the most complex and esoteric elements of Jungian theory and explaining them in a straightforward, amusing, and engaging manner. This sequel to Practical Jung offers humorous anecdotes and a wealth of useful information for teachers, therapists, social workers, pastoral counselors, and anyone who has ever wanted to know or understand more about Jungian ideas.

The Ulanovs examine the images of the witch and the clown in terms of what they mean to people in the actual living of their lives. The witch and the clown, representing psychic factors, are revealed as determining much of the complexity of human sexual life. The common notions of male sexuality based upon strength and aggression and female sexuality upon weakness and submission are thoroughly undone in this analysis.

Young Carl Jung offers a rare glimpse into Carl Jung's formative years. Many details never before published were revealed to the author during visits to Bollingen and Küsnacht, Switzerland. In a masterful telling of Jung's childhood, from his ancestry and birth until 1900 when he finished medical school in Basel and was heading to Zürich to become a psychiatrist, Brockway uncovers the impact Jung's experiences played in forming his later theories.