Books published by Chiron Publications

Margritte is a poet of dreams. His painting present to the eye of the observer an enigma having the same coded density as the oneiric world.In a frenetic society that has given up dreams and fantasy, that is characterized by people rushing vertiginously ahead, like guinea pigs continually bombarded with stimuli rushing madly around their cage, the analyst's task is to recover the imaginary, the poetry of the soul, of the psyche. In this sense, the therapist must necessarily be portrayed as a wayfarer who lives life as if it were a never ending voyage. Every stop is marked by an encounter, at every stop a face awaits.And in that lost and bewildered stranger who asks to be shown the way, one begins traveling down a new stretch of the road. It is in the patient that the analyst finds the eagerly awaited fellow traveler.Table of ContentsIntroductionSearching for a ResponseRomantic RootsThe Paradox of RulesAs You Are (With the Kind Permission of Pirandello)The Difficult Art of Being Subjective The Lonely Path of the IndividualAn Excursion into the Analytical Field: Cultivating the RelationshipIn Search of the Primary Relationship Ties That Do Not BindA Starless Night: The Road to Desire The Analyst's Knowledge of Sentiment Gentle Repose BanishedJung in Unexplored TerritoryMore Talk About SentimentsScience Moves, But Reluctantly Homeless, Outlawed, and on the Road: On Our OwnIf This Be MadnessAn Epilogue: Magritte's "Therapist" BibliographyIndex

"Taking a numinous dream as her departure point, the author weaves her way through the mythological and religious amplifications of dream imagery to address issues of woman's soul and mind. She shows a feminine way of proceeding from the depth of lived experience that must undergird any approach to feminist theology. A meditative book and fascinating to read."-Ann Ulanov - co-author of The Witch and the Clown"Behold Woman is a powerful new interpretation of Jung's significance for feminist theology. It should be "must reading" for all seminarians and clergy."-Professor Robert Moore - Chicago Theology Seminary"The mode of following a dream in order to understand something so intimate as woman/ man in their relationships. is a splendid one ... Dr. Dunne· s final explication of Dionysius in terms of the four women with whom he was related, was nothing short of brilliant. I can take heart that women are looking for a more nourishing idiom than the political one. and there is no doubt that Carrin Dunne· s approach contributes mightily to that."-David Burrell. C.S.C. - University of Notre Dame"Carrin Dunn's new, indepth reflections on the feminine is well named: Behold Woman. It is indeed an approach to a more balanced and androgynous theology for our times. For theology to be theology the reflections must come from the depths of a lived conviction and situation. Carrin' s offerings here have a clear ring of that kind of truth with a freshness that is intriguing.She cites Eckhart and Lao Tzu as "thinkers in the feminine mode," under the aegis of soul. Her agile knowledge of Greek and other mythology keeps the reader wide awake as she swiftly moves from character to character with profound insight and application to herself and "everywoman."The book could well serve as a text for a deeper-than-ever study of the feminine from a Jungian and mythological perspective. drawing heavily on ancient myths, East and West. The author's dream and the book end "unfinished" with a real sense of growth. discovery. some answers and still some pain but with more self-confidence, yet with an ever thirsting openness to the full Truth. to "It."-Pascaline Coff, O.S.B. - OEM Forest of Peace

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.Humbert has a remarkable capacity to get right inside Jung's ideas, bringing them close to human emotional experience and forcing the reader to confront the implications. At the same time, the book has an exemplary intellectual quality. -Andrew Samuels, Author, Jung and the Post-]ungiansThis book offers a basic exposition of Jung's psychology that is both simple and profound. It is a rare book and can be wholeheartedly recommended to both the beginner and the most advanced student of analytical psychology. -Thomas Kirsch, Vice President, International Association for Analytical PsychologyHumbert has a miraculous talent for clarifying some of the most difficult and complex ideas of Jung, while retaining the original flavor. His appreciation for paradox-such as illness and apparent health, health and apparent illness-brings us close to Jung's essence. -Rosemary Gordon, Editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology.

This fascinating collection of autobiographical and biographical essays examines the many roles of mother and father, both personal and cultural, in the psychological life and development of the individual.Table of ContentsPART ONE: MY MOTHER, MY FATHERFather and Son Robert BlyOn Being Born, On Caring, and On Dying Elisabeth Kubler-RossMy Mother and My Father Mary Catherine BatesonPowerful Women: Mother, Great Grandmother Betty Sue FlowersThe Power and Limitations of Parents Jerome KaganPART TWO: THE MOTHER, THE FATHERThe Eternal Woman: The Worship of Mary in Art Elizabeth SilverthorneMother and Daughter Relationships Mary BrinerThe Myth of the Hero John SilberJung: Father and Son-One View Murray SteinJung: Father and Son-Another View Harry A. Wilmer

This book is an insightful and convincing interpretation of Jung's encounter with Christianity. In the last 20 years of his life, Jung wrote extensively on the Trinity, the Mass, alchemy, and the Bible, in what Murray Stein understands as his effort to help Christianity evolve into its next stage of development. Here, Stein provides a comprehensive analysis of Jung's writings on Christianity in relation to his personal life, psychological thought, and efforts to transform Western religion.The book is beautifully written, tightly argued, intellectually satisfying in every way. It provides an illuminating overview of Jung's life and thought and can be recommended for both beginning students and scholars of Jung's thought as a faithful reading. -ANNE CARR, Associate Professor of Theology, University of Chicago Divinity SchoolThis is a literate and lucid treatment of an undeniably central aspect of Jung's later work, based on an admirable wide ranging store of the literature, both what is considered orthodox and much that, happily, is well beyond the limitations of that term. -WILLIAM McGUIRE, Author of Bollingen, An Adventure in Collecting the PastStein makes a dramatic, important, and novel interpretation of Jung's encounter with Christianity. His argument is lucid, careful, and persuasive. He asks seriously, in a way Jung could respect, why Jung wrote what he did about religion. -JAMES DITTES, Professor of Pastoral Theology and Psychology, Yale UniversityStein's design of Jung as therapist of Christianity works extremely well. All this is used brilliantly. I couldn't stop reading, didn't want to, am glad I didn't, learned a lot." -EUGENE GENDLIN, Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago, Author of FocusingMurray Stein, Ph.D. is a supervising training analyst and former president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). His most recent books include Outside Inside and All Around, Minding the Self and The Principle of Individuation. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He lectures internationally on topics related to Analytical Psychology and its applications in the contemporary world. He is publisher emeritus of Chiron Publications and is the focus of many Asheville Jung Center online seminars.

Three plays analyzed from a Jungian perspective and a fresh wit, catching many contemporary nuances in these well-loved plays and their continuing relevance for today.Barbara Rogers-Gardner has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Rutgers University and has published two novels as well as numerous scholarly articles. She has taught at Ramapo College of New Jersey, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is now a member of the faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, a center for the study of Depth Psychology.From the book:"A model of Jung's mature, harmonious self is to be found in Prospero, who trusts that death is an initiation into divinity. Prospero's shadow is recognized and embraced in Caliban, the poetic, sensual monster who grounds us in pig-nuts and music....Not in individualism, the sort of maladaptive bog in which Claudius, lago, and Stephano sink, but in accommodating the self to the social order does the Shakespearean hero find his peace.""Dr. Rogers-Gardner places Shake-speare's characters under the lens of archetypal theory, showing us eruptions from the unconscious, fragmentation of the ego, and finally the maturation pro-cess in which opposites are conjoined. In this brilliant blend of Depth Psychol-ogy and current literary criticism, we cannot help but see ourselves." -Dr. C. Edward Crowther, Jungian psy-chotherapist and author of Intimacy: Strategies for Successful Relationships