Jungian and Interdisciplinary Analyses of Emotions : Method and Imagery

This comprehensive collection of chapters concentrates on the multifaceted theme of emotions, and deepens our understanding of the role emotions play within the psyche.

Leading international psychoanalysts and academics offer broad interdisciplinary dimensions using their own unique perspectives on the topic of emotions. Delineating into five parts, this volume focuses on key themes such as emotions, imagination, and method; the emotional basis of archetypes and complexes; relational trauma; mapping contagion across cultures; the contribution from neuroscience; and, finally, dreams and the transcendent. Clinical cases presented underline the important role unconscious, disassociated emotions play in the formation of symptomatology and how wholeness is facilitated through their acceptance.

This collection offers a timely contribution to the interdisciplinary study of emotions placing Jungian psychology firmly within that framework. It will be of great interest to Jungian analysts, trainees, and psychotherapists, as well as interdisciplinary academic researchers interested in methodology, unconscious processes, transference, and dreams.

Elizabeth Brodersen, PhD, is an accredited training analyst and supervisor, and lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich, Switzerland, with an MSc in Social Policy and Social Work Studies from the London School of Economics, UK, and a doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex. She works in a private practice in Germany and Switzerland and is a member of the CGJIZ Research Commission.

Isabelle Meier, PhD (CH) is a training analyst and supervisor at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich, Switzerland, with a private practice in Zürich. She is Co-President of the International Network of Research in Analytical Psychology (INFAP3) and serves on the editorial board of the German journal Analytische Psychologie. She has published numerous works on clinical research topics.

Valeria Céspedes Musso, PhD, is an independent researcher in private practice in Washington, DC. She received her doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies in 2017 from the University of Essex, UK, and a Master’s degree in Political Science from Northeastern University, USA. Valeria is currently a Diploma candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich, Switzerland, and a student member of the Research Commission there.