Jung was one of the first modern thinkers to realize the importance of alchemical symbolism to men and women today. This volume presents a selection of Jung's writing on alchemy, a concise introduction to its principles and the importance of alchemy in the context of Jung's psychology.[...]
All human relationships are containers of emotional life, but what are the structures underlying them? Nathan Schwartz-Salant looks at all kinds of relationships through an analyst's eye. By analogy with the ancient system of alchemy he shows how states of mind that can undermine our relationships -[...]
A practical guide to the phenomenology of narcissism - what it looks like, what it means and how to deal with it. Draws on mythology and a variety of analytic points of view (Jung, Klein, Freud, Kohut, etc.).
"A quite wonderful interweaving of mythological and clinical perspectives." [...]