Description
Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation gives a fascinating account of the wide variety of experiences of Jungian analysts working in different cultures across the world. They describe and reflect on experiences of both offering and receiving training within these cross-cultural partnerships. This is a book not only about training but is also an enlightening cultural commentary for our times. The powerful bi-directionality of cultural influence and discovery is apparent in different ways in every chapter, prompting a re-appraisal of concepts essential to the core values of Jungian practice which show an outdated adherence to culture-bound attitudes.
The publication of this book is a timely reminder that when Jungian analysis as we know it is floundering in some Western countries, new projects in countries seeking to develop an analytic culture give hope for sustaining our professional practice.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1: Archetypes Across Cultural Divides; 2: Reflections on the Bi-directionality of Influence; 3: The Self and Individuation: Universal and Particular; 4: Pioneers or Colonialism?; 5: Cultural Complexes and Working Partnerships; 6: Understanding Group and Organizational Dynamics in Cultural Partnerships; 7: Issues of Cultural Identity and Authorship When Receiving Training from Other Cultures; 8: Women and Professional Identity in Russia; 9: Influenced, Changed, or Transformed?; 10: Bridging Two Realities: A Foreign Language; 11: The Delivery of Training: Personal Experiences as a Trainer in Other Cultures; 12: Shuttle Analysis Across Cultures; 13: An East-West ‘Coniunctio’: The Relational Field; 14: Giving voice to Psychic Pain: The British-Mexican Connection; 15: Returning to China; 16: From Tradition to Innovation: What Have We Learned?
