Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire: At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma [Paperback]

1. Introduction??2. Our Climate Crisis. The Need for an Active Analyst when working with the Nature Archetype in Jungian Analysis 3. Archetypal Nonviolence in Analysis 4. The Dark Feminine Rising. A Psycho-Cultural and Clinical Meditation 5.The View to A Kill: Conscious Cruelty and the Role of Ambivalence in Our Use and Abuse of Non-Human Animals 6. Cuauht?moc and the Other. Confronting the Chingada Complex 7. Finding your Inner Gun. A Jungian Perspective on Mass Shootings and American Gun Culture 8. An Ecological Future Beyond the Pandemic 9. The Jungian Analyst in Between Life and Death. Clinical Ethics in an Age of Pandemic

This volume of essays, all authored by practicing Jungian psychoanalysts, examines and illuminates ways of working with individual analytic and therapeutic clients in the context of powerful and current collective forces, in the United States and beyond.

In this summer of fire comes this vitalizing volume on how collective archetypal dynamics impact the being trying to be human. With existential catastrophes in the relation to the Other, that other of nature, people, the nonhuman, climate, the iconic gun, pandemic, the atrocity of colonialism, etc. brings soul-death inside the consulting room. Here is how to treat it.

Susan Rowland (PhD), Pacifica Graduate Institute, author of The Alchemy Fire Murder (2023)

This challenging book aims to further the development of Jungian analysis by paying careful attention to the importance of our present social, cultural, and political realities. Our world has changed in a way that has radically affected the psyche and soul of both patients and analysts. This change has opened fundamental questions about analytic practice, the relationship between our inner and outer realities, and how this change might alter the nature of the analytic dyad. Thl#.