Childhood Re-Imagined: Images and Narratives of Development in Analytical Psychology

What can Jungian psychology contribute to understanding children and childhood? This book considers Carl Jung's psychological approach to childhood and argues that his symbolic view deserves a place between the more traditional scientific and social-constructionist views of development. Divided into four sections this book covers: Jung on development; theoretical and methodological discussion; the Developmental School of analytical psychology; towards a Jungian developmental psychology. It will be of particular interest to those involved in analytical psychology, Jungian studies and childhood studies.