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.

Table of Contents:
Editorial Introduction Part 1: Emotions, Imagination, and Method 1. Emotions and Imagination 2. Emotions, Subtle Body, Somatic Unconscious Sand-play Therapy 3. A Frontline Report 4. The Empty Chair Part 2: Emotions, Archetypes, Complexes, Imagery 5. Current Emotion Theories and Analytical Psychology 6. Treating Complex Episodes through Bilateral Stimulation: An integration of the Theory of Complexes and Emdr in the Analytical Setting 7. Between Heaven and Hell There is No-thing: A Case Study of a Patient with BPD Part 3: Emotions, Relational Trauma, Mapping, Contagion 8. ‘I Feel, Therefore We Are’: The Body as an Emotional Map of the World Between Individual and Collective States of Mind 9. Adelphos or the Anxiolytic Function of the Self 10. Jung, DID and AID: Clinical Considerations between Jung, Dissociative Identity Disorder and Active Internal Dialogue as a Modified Active Imagination Approach Part 4: Emotions, Neuroscience, Developmental Processes, Imaging 11. Spirit of our Time: Adolescence between Body, Time and Affectivity 12. Emotions, Cognition, Images and the Development of the Personality 13. Emotion and Constellation from the Viewpoint of Buddhism Part 5: Emotions, Dreams, Symbol, Transcendent 14. Memory, Affect and Meaning in the Transcendent Function: Dreams in a Patient with Dissociative Amnesia 15. Jung, Dada and the Discussion and Painting of Dreams