Books Received

STEIN, L., & CORBETT, L. Psychedelics and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts. Chiron Publications. 2024. Pp. 250. Pbk. $34. Based on extensive clinical and personal experience of the place of psychedelic agents in psychotherapy, Jungian analysts debate the issues and try to clarify the correct use of these compounds, without either idealizing their use or dismissing them as artificial substitutes for the real thing. SINGER, T. Cultural Complexes in Australia: Placing Psyche. Routledge. 2023. Pp. 288. Pbk. £22.49. Cultural Complexes in Australia: Placing Psyche is the first in a series of books that will explore the notion of cultural complexes in a variety of settings around the world. The continent of Australia is the focus of this inaugural volume in which the contributors elucidate how the unique geography and peoples of Australia interact and interpenetrate to create the particular “mindscapes” of the Australian psyche. STEIN, M., & ABRAMOVITCH, H. The Shadow and the Problem of Evil: Five Examinations. Chiron Publications. 2023. Pp. 184. Pbk. $29.89. A Jungian perspective on the nature of evil, the symbols that represent our shadows, and the profound impact of these hidden aspects on society and our ethical choices. ALDERMAN, B. Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction: An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler. Routledge. 2023. Pp. 272. Pbk. £26.99. Deconstruction, the method of philosophical and literary analysis originated by Jacques Derrida, arises from what Carl Jung called “a kind of readiness to produce over and over again the same or similar mythical ideas.” In the case of deconstruction, such ideas bear a striking resemblance to the puer aeternus. In addition to a careful analysis of numerous Derridean texts, the author offers readings of literary works by Milan Kundera, J. M. Barrie, Dante, Apuleius, and others. TAKI-REECE, S. Psychotherapy with Inner City Children: Mixed Methods Research on Seven Case Studies using Sandplay Therapy. Analytical Psychology Press: Sandplay Editions. 2022. Pp. 190. Pbk. $28. Dr. Sachiko Taki-Reece began as a registered nurse, working with children in Kyoto, Japan. Following an analysis with Hayao Kawai, she introduced sandplay into her work with troubled youth. This book describes her therapeutic approach to working with children in a Los Angeles County Public Health programme for children with severe behavioural and academic problems. She presents case studies of seven children. BARCELLOS, G. Zeus: The Order of the World and Archetypal Fatherhood. Spring Publications. 2023. Pp. 134. Pbk. $20. This book examines the mythical figure of Zeus from the viewpoint of Jungian psychoanalysis, with its various implications on our understandings of fatherhood, sovereignty, power, fertility, regency, and the order of the world. THOMAS, D. The Deep Psychology of BDSM and Kink Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on the Soul's Transgressive Necessities. Routledge. 2023. Pp. 294. Pbk. £22.49. This volume investigates how the concept of soul is connected to BDSM and kink, exploring the world of alternative sexualities through the psychology of C. G. Jung and James Hillman as readers are guided on a provocative and lively journey through darker aspects of the sexual imagination. SCHWARTZ, S. Imposter Syndrome and The “As-If” Personality in Analytical Psychology. Routledge. 2023. Pp. 230. Pbk. £22.49. The book describes persons expressing an “as-if” personality as facing a conundrum around whether to hide or expose the truth of who they are. Using clinical examples the author describes people who are moving through feelings of not belonging, sexual addiction, ageing, the cultural influence of social media, the role of the father, and body image challenges. HOWE, L. The Wizard, the Egg and Fitcher's Bird: Returning Spiritual Life to Nature in the Individuation of Women. Chiron Publications. 2023. Pp. 350. Pbk. $44. The animus remains a baffling, misunderstood force in women's psychology, but the fairytale “Fitcher's Bird” brings his ambivalent, wizardly power and his psychic aims as the spirit of individuation into view, reaching into rich alchemical symbolism to do so. The tale and its alchemical background are illuminated with dreams and psychic images from several women's lives, whose stories help us understand the profound personal and archetypal value of engaging creatively with the animus. MONK, A. Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy: Working with the Curse Position in Clinical Practice. Routledge. 2023. Pp. 180. Pbk. £22.49. Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural, and the occult. The author presents examples from folklore and literature to enrich his case illustrations, which offer therapists important clinical perspectives on ways of working with clients who feel cursed and repeatedly manifest self-sabotaging states.

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