The book is stimulating in going to the core of psychotherapeutic work, and invites a response from psychotherapists in general and from Jungian analysts in particular. -- San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps ofMeaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

A collection of some of Jung's most important essays on the archetypes and the collective unconscious

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious features many of Jung's most important essays describing and elaborating on these two central, related concepts. The contents are:

• Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious (1934)
• The Concept of the Collective Unconscious (1936)
• Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept (1936)
• Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype (1938)
• Concerning Rebirth (1939)
• The Psychology of the Child Archetype (1940)
• The Psychological Aspects of the Kore (1941)
• The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales (1945)
• On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure (1954)
• Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation (1939)
• A Study in the Process of Individuation (1933)
• Concerning Mandala Symbolism (1950)

Letters to a New Student is a study skills book with a twist. You decide how to read it.

Based on a series of short, informal, problem page letters that you can read in any order, the book uses principles of human psychology, teaching, and coaching practice to offer a refreshing approach to study skills and learning techniques. The letters form a brief 'survive and thrive' study guide to work smarter not harder and offer advice on topics such as motivation, stress, revision, and assignments. It's a tried-and-tested, blueprint to make information stick with less effort.

The book takes a holistic approach to learning. It covers health and wellbeing, the 'nuts-and-bolts' shortcuts, the obstacles, and the pitfalls. It also includes short learning principles and cross-references to other entries, with practical advice in response to the frequently asked questions many students ask during their studies.

Letters to a New Student is for any student under pressure, parents and family who want to offer support, or anyone with interest in lifelong learning. It's written by a psychologist, teacher, academic coach, and advice columnist, with over 20 years professional experience.

This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book. --Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology

This is a remarkable book--remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior...It ought to be...valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity. --Harry Prosch, Ethics

THE RENOWNED JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGIST AND AUTHOR OF 'TRANSFORMATION' AND 'OWNING YOUR OWN SHADOW' BRINGS THE HIDDEN GIFT OF ECSTASY BACK INTO OUR LIVES.

Robert A. Johnson has taken tens of thousands of readers on spiritual and psychological journeys towards inner transformation. In 'Ecstasy', he reconnects with the powerful and life-changing ecstatic element that lies dormant - but long-repressed - within us.

Ecstasy was once considered a divine gift, Johnson tells us, one that could lift mortals out of ordinary reality and into higher world. But because Western culture has systematically repressed this ecstatic human impulse, we are unable to truly experience its transformative power.

Johnson penetrates the surface of modern life to reveal the ancient dynamics of our humanity, pointing out practical means for achieving a healthy expression of our true inner selves. Through dreams, rituals, and celebrations, he shows us how to return to these original life-giving principles and restore inner harmony.

Robert A. Johnson is the best-selling author of 'He, She, We, Inner Work, ' and 'Femininity Lost and Regained. '

The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real'. He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.

In paperback for the first time, an authoritative collection of Jung's writings on analytical psychology, including Synchronicity

The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche features a selection of Jung's writings, ranging over four decades of his career, that illustrate the development of the conceptual foundations of analytical psychology. These pieces span the period from Jung's break with Freud and the psychoanalytical school, when Jung began formulating his own theories, to the 1950s, when he published an account of his controversial theory of synchronicity.

The contents are: On Psychic Energy - The Transcendent Function - A Review of the Complex Theory - The Significance of Constitution and Heredity in Psychology - Psychological Factors Determining Human Behavior - Instinct and the Unconscious - The Structure of the Psyche - On the Nature of the Psyche - General Aspects of Dream Psychology - On the Nature of Dreams - The Psychological Foundation of Belief in Spirits - Spirit and Life - Basic Postulates of Analytical Psychology - Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung - The Real and the Surreal - The Stages of Life - The Soul and Death - Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle - On Synchronicity

- Psychopathology of Everyday Life is perhaps the most accessible of Freud's books. An intriguing introduction to psychoanalysis, it shows how subconscious motives underlie even the most ordinary mistakes we make in talking, writing, and remembering.

- The Interpretation of Dreams records Freud's revolutionary inquiry into the meaning of dreams and the power of the unconscious.

- Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex is the seminal work in which Freud traces the development of sexual instinct in humans from infancy to maturity.

- Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious expands on the theories Freud set forth in The Interpretation of Dreams. It demonstrates how all forms of humor attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind.

- Totem and Taboo extends Freud's analysis of the individual psyche to society and culture.

- The History of Psychoanalytic Movement makes clear the ultimate incompatibility of Freud's ideas with those of his onetime followers Adler and Jung.

Más allá de la libertad y la dignidad es una obra profunda y ciertamente controvertida, un hito del pensamiento del siglo XX. B. F. Skinner hace su declaración definitiva sobre la humanidad y la sociedad. Insistiendo en que los problemas del mundo actual sólo pueden resolverse tratando de forma mucho más eficaz el comportamiento humano, Skinner sostiene que nuestros conceptos tradicionales de libertad y dignidad deben ser revisados. Han desempeñado un papel histórico en nuestra lucha contra muchos tipos de tiranía, reconoce, pero ahora son responsables de la defensa inútil de un individuo presuntamente libre y autónomo; están perpetuando nuestro uso del castigo y bloqueando el desarrollo de prácticas culturales más eficaces. Apoyando sus argumentos en los resultados del análisis experimental de la conducta, del que fue pionero, Skinner rechaza las explicaciones tradicionales del comportamiento en términos de estados internos, sentimientos y otros atributos mentales y habla en favor de las explicaciones basadas en la interacción entre la dotación genética y la historia personal. Más allá de la libertad y la dignidad nos insta a reexaminar los ideales que hemos dado por sentados y a considerar la posibilidad de un enfoque radicalmente diferente de los problemas existenciales que acucian a la humanidad.

In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets.... Even people who would never have thought that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. Under these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by visions, ' by a widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by others.--C. G. Jung, in Flying Saucers
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Jung's primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, a modern myth.

In paperback for the first time, an authoritative edition of Jung's shorter works on the psychology of religious phenomena

This volume collects Jung's shorter writings on religion and psychology, including several that are of major importance.

The pieces on Western religion are Psychology and Religion - A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity - Transformation Symbolism in the Mass - Forewords to White's God and the Unconscious and Werblowsky's Lucifer and Prometheus - Brother Klaus - Psychotherapists or the Clergy - Psychoanalysis and the Cure of Souls - Answer to Job

The pieces on Eastern religion are Psychological Commentaries on The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation and The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Yoga and the West - Foreword to Suzuki's Introduction to Zen Buddhism - The Psychology of Eastern Meditation - The Holy Men of India - Foreword to the I Ching

One of the most important of Jung's longer works, and probably the most famous of his books, Psychological Types appeared in German in 1921 after a fallow period of eight years during which Jung had published little. He called it the fruit of nearly twenty years' work in the domain of practical psychology, and in his autobiography he wrote: This work sprang originally from my need to define the ways in which my outlook differed from Freud's and Adler's. In attempting to answer this question, I came across the problem of types; for it is one's psychological type which from the outset determines and limits a person's judgment. My book, therefore, was an effort to deal with the relationship of the individual to the world, to people and things. It discussed the various aspects of consciousness, the various attitudes the conscious mind might take toward the world, and thus constitutes a psychology of consciousness regarded from what might be called a clinical angle.

In expounding his system of personality types Jung relied not so much on formal case data as on the countless impressions and experiences derived from the treatment of nervous illnesses, from intercourse with people of all social levels, friend and foe alike, and from an analysis of his own psychological nature. The book is rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The extended chapters that give general descriptions of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytical psychology.

Jung's last major work, completed in his 81st year, on the synthesis of the opposites in alchemy and psychology.

About Behaviorism is an opportunity to match wits with one of the great men of psychology and to participate in some of its great debates. --James B. Rule, Newsday