Abandonment.: A Review of Jungian Analysis

Jungian theories and clinical approaches to the central therapeutic and developmental issue of abandonment are featured with topics covering early infancy, the creative woman, transformation, and others.

Contents:

Michael Fordham - Abandonment in Infancy

Marion Woodman - Abandonment in the Creative Woman

Jeffrey Satinover - At the Mercy of Another: Abandonment and Restitution in Psychosis and Psychotic Character

Patricia Berry-Hillman - Some Dream Motifs Accompanying the "Abandonment" of an Analytic Practice

Harriet Gordon Machtiger - Perilous Beginnings: Loss, Abandonment, and Transformation

Renaldo Maduro - Abandonment and Deintegration of the Primary Self

Gilda Frantz - Birth's Cruel Secret: I am my own Lost Mother To my own Sad Child

William Willeford - Abandonment, Wish, and Hope in the Blues

Tristan 0. Cornes - Symbol and Ritual in Melancholia: The Archetype of The Divine Victim