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Review: "History of Madness" by Michel Foucault

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by James Hollis

James Hollis reviews the new English translation of French philosopher Michel Foucault's magisterial History of Madness, previously available only in abridged form as Madness and Civilization.

Boulder Society Now Accepting Program Proposals

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Nancy Ortenberg

The Boulder Friends of Jung is currently soliciting program proposals for our Fall 2008 through 2009 lecture/workshop series. Our programs are held the third week of the month, with lectures on Friday evening, workshops on Saturday, and run from February through May and September through November. Please note that we are a newly created non-profit organization with very limited funds, and regrettably not all proposals received can be accepted. If you are interested in coming to Boulder, Colorado and meeting a commuity of energized people dedicated to the psychology of C.G. Jung, please contact Nancy Ortenberg at 303.449.2011 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Archetypes and Complexes in the Womb

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Rainer Maria Kohler

Analyst Rainer Maria Kohler explores current neuroscientific findings that underscore the critical importance of prenatal development on psychological growth (using the German-language book The Mystery of the First Nine Months. Our Earliest Formative Influences by Gerald Hüther and Inge Krens) and describes the emergence of archetypal forces already in the womb.

Dancing Around The Bomb: On Wolfgang Giegerich's "The Nuclear Bomb and the Fate of God"

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Dolores Brien

In this essay, Dolores Brien reflects on Wolfgang Giegerich's original, unsettling, and provocative exploration of the psychological implications of the nuclear bomb.

Apropos "The Jung-White Letters": The Critique of the Understanding of Evil as Privatio Boni

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Richard M. Capobianco

To mark the publishing of The Jung-White Letters, Richard Capobianco offers this essay (originally published in the journal Philosophy and Theology), which examines an issue central to understanding the correspondence between Jung and Fr. Victor White - the problem of evil.

In The Beginning: Jung and Freud on Introversion

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Richard M. Capobianco

In this essay originally published in Psychological Perspectives, Stonehill College professor of philosophy Richard M. Capobianco tracks the evolution of Jung's early effort to explore the creative aspects of introversion in contrast to Freud's view, which emphasized its pathological aspects.

The Jung-White Letters

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Sean Fitzpatrick

We are happy to announce the publication of The Jung-White Letters, the first volume from the work of the Philemon Foundation. Edited by Ann Conrad Lammers & Adrian Cunningham (with contributing editor Murray Stein), this volume charts fifteen years of correspondence between C.G. Jung and Victor White, an English Dominican priest and theologian. The dialogue between the two provides valuable insights into the development of Jung's thought, and the relationship between psychology and religion. The book can be purchased through major retailers and through The Jung Center of Houston's online bookstore by clicking here.

On the Passing of Paul Watzliwak

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Thomas B. Kirsch, MD

Paul Watzliwak, noted author and psychologist, and died on March 31, 2007 in Palo Alto, California. He was 85 years old, and he had recently retired from the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto where he had been a mainstay of their faculty since 1960. Click the title above to read more about his life and contributions to analytical psychology.

Out of the Abaissement: An Experience of Group Process on War and Religion

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Luisetta Mudie

Freelance journalist and analytic training candidate Luisetta Mudie offers a poetic, deeply personal challenge to adapt our techniques for doing intrapsychic work with Otherness - with the shadows and ghosts that haunt each of us - to a new engagement with the spooks that generate fear and violence in our communities.

Two New Resources

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37; Written by Sean Fitzpatrick

Jungian analyst John Betts has begun to offer free, biweekly podcasts (online audio lectures) on the fundamentals of Jungian psychology. To learn more, visit his website at http://www.islandnet.com/~jungian/Jung_Podcasts.htm

A new Jungian discussion forum has been launched. Useless Science (www.uselessscience.com/forum) is intended as a space for fertile and progressive discussions of Jungian and other depth psychology issues.

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