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Jung's idea of the 'personal equation' amounts to the reflection that theoretical differences between the psychologies that people teach are rooted in their personalities, in other words, that they are due to the psychology each one 'has'. This concept also applies to different interpretations of Jung's work. The serious difficulties that Mark Saban has with my psychology are a case in point. Recourse to the concept of the personal equation reveals that Saban has his Jung and I have mine. With his insistence on his Talmudic methodological principle of dream interpretation, that 'the dream is its own interpretation', according to Saban Jung means nothing but a rejection of Freudian free association. My Jung goes far beyond that. Jung understands this methodological principle above all in terms of what he calls 'circumambulation'. The main part of this paper is devoted to an elucidation of what circumambulation involves as a mode of dream interpretation. The paper concludes with the distinction Jung himself introduced between two types of reading of his work, either as 'paper' and 'dead nostrums' or as 'fire and wind', and pleads for a reconstruction of Jung's psychology as a whole in terms of his most advanced, deepest insights, instead of a dogmatic reading mainly based on the early Jung, a reading for which his later revolutionary insights are at best negligible embellishments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a discussion on the paper titled "Your Self: did you find it or did you make it?" presented by author Louis Zinkin at the Society of Analytical Psychology meeting in November 1991. Several authors including David Howell, Kate Newton, and Joe Redfearn, discussed and criticized the constructivist view of the self that Zinkin has proposed in his paper. The meeting was chaired and introduced by Christopher Perry.

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In this article the author responds to Dr.R.B. Britton's paper on narcissism. The author says that Dr. Britton has defined the field he finds pertinent to his clinical practice. In doing this he has added an original thought of his own that the relationship between self and ego ideal in narcissistic states displaces the relationship between ego and super ego. He describes this as a defensive response to a super ego that cannot be faced. And he asked the question: Is a narcissistic state therefore an evasion of the super ego and an alternative to seeking love from the super ego? This is one of the gems of this paper and it shifts thinking about narcissism away from its predominantly envy based roots in the Kleinian development.

Explores the issues dealing with constructivism in psychology. Non-essentialist arguments; Aims of the methods and teachings of non-essentialism in Buddhism; Views of self for constructivists and Buddhists; Discussion on the ideas of leading psychologists in constructivism.

This article focuses on the book "The Survival Papers: Anatomy of a Midlife Crisis," by Daryl Sharp. This book draws on the basic concepts of Jungian psychology to explore the experience and meaning of conflict, depression and many other symptoms associated with psychological problems in the middle years of life.

The article highlights the conference "Succeeding Laius: Intergenerational Difficulties in Psychotherapy Organizations," which was held in London, England by the Confederation for Analytical Psychology on March 10, 2007. The conference is part an attempt by the Confederation to reflect on turbulence in the organization associated with a transition in leadership from a founder member to a second generation.

Comments on the article published in the "Journal of Analytical Psychology," which claims that homosexuality should be regarded as a perversion. Technical definition of perversion; Possible causes of homosexuality; Basis for the claim that adolescent homosexuality fosters heterosexuality.

Psychologist Clifford Scott compares psychoanalysis and analytical psychology in relation to the detailed behaviour of analysts. This is essential because behaviour determines, to a large extent, both the data produced and the field of study in which analysts are engaged. Among the changes in behaviour is one not sufficiently appreciated in his paper. A good many analytical psychologists have found out that there are advantages to be gained by using the couch, and, while not making it conditional for analysis to take place, they use it more often than the chair. Again, though it still is current practice to `ask patients to concentrate on an image and see what happens', or, for that matter, to concentrate on dreams by writing them down and reporting them in the session, a growing number of analytical psychologists follow a practice nearer to the one Scott indicates as characteristic of psychoanalysis: they do this because the dialectic between them and their patients is furthered and made more alive.

Presents a comment on three articles which discussed the link between analytical psychology and religion. Use of metaphors describing religious experience and the dynamics of the psyche; Nature of the metaphorical language; Evaluation on the objectivity or subjectivity of empiricism; Archetypes and scientific empiricism.

Comments on the article related to methodology in the context of analytical psychology written by David H. Rosen, Steven Smith, Holly Houson and Gilbert Gonzales. Establishment of methodology as a basis for testing Jung's hypotheses; Construction of methodology; Description of the material research.

Editorial. Comments on issues regarding several published books in psychology. Definition and concept of death instincts; Significance of theories regarding the relationship of mankind to death and dying; Introduction of the history of psychoanalysis.

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Provides information on the "Journal of Analytical Psychology" in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary. Aim of the journal to continue to develop Jungian theory in a number of ways; Improvement of international collaboration amongst Jungian analysts; Introduction to the articles featured in the February 2005 issue of the periodical.

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The article offers information on the Ⅺth international Journal of Analytical Psychology conference titled "Attachment and Intersubjectivity in the Therapeutic Relationship" held in Boston, Massachusetts in April 2013. It mentions that several psychiatrists present their paper during the event including Malcolm Slavin, Beatrice Beebe and Michael Fordham.

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The article comments on the paper "Affect and the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis," by Victor Manoel Andrade. It explores the nature of therapeutic action, particularly, the role and importance of the affective encounter in therapeutic change, and cognitive development. It establishes that emotional memory is one aspect of implicit, rather than explicit, memory.

The article evaluates the paper "The Psychology of Abortive Mechanism," by Elizabeth Gee published in the journal "Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists." The author says that Gee unfolds her thinking on abortive processes in analysis. Written in a voice and style consonant with a wider psychotherapeutic narrative, the core of the paper contains case material hauntingly illustrative of barely viable analysis and their struggle both for-and against-relationship. She proposes a link between clinical abortions and impasse in her work with four female patients. Increasingly "intrigued" by what these patients share in common-all attended frequently over many years, but seemed to make no psychological progress the author discovers each has a history of undisclosed abortions.

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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the relationship between relational synchronicity and imaginal action, circumambulation of ideas on unus mundus and synchronicity, and the ethical dimension of analytical psychology.

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The article comments on the paper entitled "The Individual and the Influence of Social Settings: A Psychoanalyitc Perspective on the Interaction of the Individual and Society," by R. D. Hinshelwood. The paper describes a patient's process of taking in a hated object which dominate her internal world in a hostile way and reflects on social psychology.

The article comments on the paper "The Emperor's Clothes: Some Serious Problems in Psychoanalytic Training," by Patrick Casement. It presents a criticism on the psychoanalytic training practices and a vision of a truly aware and competent psychoanalyst. It also identifies ways in which the institutional processes can be handled in the interest of the students.

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I Europe's Many Souls i is the seventh book in the series edited by Thomas Singer entitled I Analytical Psychology and Contemporary Culture i . Following introductory chapters from Singer and Rasche, contributions by sixteen authors continue the exploration of their concept of "cultural complexes". As Rasche remarks 'when we talk about cultural complexes, we are also talking about identity, at least some of the time' (Rasche & Singer 2016, p. 22), and perhaps because group identity and differentiation are so fundamental to individual identity formation and sense of self, the more a cultural complex is challenged, the more rigid it may become. [Extracted from the article]

Evaluates the journal article 'Learning from Bion,' written by Sheila Spensley in the July, 1999 issue of the 'Journal of the British Psychotherapists' magazine. Recollection of experiences in attending seminars given by psychotherapists Wilfred Bion in 1967; Focus of the paper on Bion's work on thought and thinking; Case example of an obsessional anorexic woman.