Possession: Jung's Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche: Second Edition

Author(s) : Craig E. Stephenson

Possession: Jung's Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche: Second Edition

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2016
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 200
  • Category :
    Jung and Analytical Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 39529
  • ISBN 13 : 9781138856059
  • ISBN 10 : 1138856053
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The first edition of this illuminating study, addressed both to readers new to Jung and to those already familiar with his work, offered fresh insights into a fundamental concept of analytical psychology. This revised edition has been fully updated to reflect the publication of the DSM-5. Craig Stephenson anatomizes Jung's concept of possession, reinvesting Jungian psychotherapy with its positive potential for practice. Analogizing the concept - lining it up comparatively beside the history of religion, anthropology, psychiatry, and even drama and film criticism - offers not a naive syncretism, but enlightening possibilities along the borders of these diverse disciplines.

An original, wide-ranging exploration of phenomena both ancient and modern, Possession offers a conceptual bridge between psychology and anthropology, challenges psychiatry to culturally contextualize its diagnostic manual, and posits a much more fluid, pluralistic and embodied notion of selfhood. It will prove essential reading for Jungian psychotherapists, analytical and depth psychologists and psychiatrists as well as academics and students of anthropology, mythology and religious studies.

About the Author(s)

Craig E. Stephenson is a Jungian analyst in private practice. His books include Anteros: A Forgotten Myth, Jung and Moreno, and Possession: Jung’s Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche. He edited On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung’s Lecture on Gérard de Nerval’s Aurélia.

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