Jungian Analysis, Depth Psychology, and Soul

Thomas B. Kirsch is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Palo Alto, California, and the son of two first-generation Jungian analysts, James and Hilde Kirsch, who began their analytic work with C. G. Jung in 1929. He graduated from Yale Medical School (1961), did his residency in psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University, and then spent two years with the National Institute of Mental Health in San Francisco. He completed his Jungian training at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco (1968). He was president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco from 1976–8, served on the executive committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, 1977–95, and was IAAP president 1989–95. Dr. Kirsch was the co-editor of the Jungian Section of the International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Neurology (1977), as well as editor of the Jungian section of the three-volume International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis edited by Alain de Mijolla, 2005. He is the author of The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective (Routledge 2000), consulting editor of The Jung-Kirsch Letters (Routledge 2011), the correspondence between his father James Kirsch and C. J. Jung, as well as the author of many published chapters in books, articles in scientific journals, and book reviews. He co-edited with George Hogenson The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus (Routledge 2013), and his memoir, A Jungian Life, was published in 2014. For more information on Dr. Kirsch, see his website at www.jungians.com.

• Table of ContentsForeword vAcknowledgements xChapter 1 1The Relationship of the REM State to Analytical PsychologyFrom the American Journal of Psychiatry, 124, no 10, April 1968Chapter 2 12The Practice of Multiple Analyses in Analytical PsychologyFrom Contemporary Psychoanalysis 12, no 2, April 1976Chapter 3 24Jungian AnalysisFrom the International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology, edited by Benjamin B. Wolman, Aesculapius Publishers, 1977Chapter 4 37Analysis in TrainingFrom Jungian Analysis, edited by Murray Stein, Open Court Press, 1995Chapter 5 56Family Matters: The Descendants of Jung and FreudFrom the Journal of Analytical Psychology 43, no 1, January 1998Chapter 6 70Jungian DiasporaFrom The Psychoanalytic Review 89, no 5, October 2002Chapter 7 78Toni Wolff–James Kirsch CorrespondenceFrom the Journal of Analytical Psychology 48, no 4, September 2003Chapter 8 90History of Analytical PsychologyFrom Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis,edited by Joseph Cambray and Linda Carter, Routledge 2004Chapter 9 135Thomas B. Kirsch Interviews Edward Edinger, December 4, 1996From The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 23, no 2, 2004Chapter 10 155Cultural Complexes in the History of Jung, Freud and Their FollowersFrom The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society,edited by Thomas Singer and Samuel L. Kimbles, Routledge 2004Chapter 11 173The Role of Personal Therapy in the Formation of a Jungian AnalystFrom The Psychotherapist’s Own Psychotherapy: Patient and Clinical Perspectives,edited by Jesse D. Geller, John C. Norcross, and David E. Orlinsky,Oxford University Press 2005Chapter 12 184The Legacy of C. G. JungFrom Who Owns Jung? edited by Ann Casemont, Karnac Books, 2007Chapter 13 203Joseph Lewis Henderson 1903–2007: A BiographyFrom Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, 2, no 1, 2008Chapter 14 233A Visit to Hildemarie StreichFrom Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, 3, no 2, 2009Chapter 15 239Reflections on the Word ‘Jungian’From Cultures and Identities in Transition: Jungian Perspectives,edited by Murray Stein and Raya A. Jones, Routledge 2010Chapter 16 254C.G. Jung: 50 Years After His DeathFrom the International Journal of Jungian Studies, 3, no 2, September 2011Chapter 17 266Preface to The Jung-Kirsch LettersFrom The Jung-Kirsch Letters: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and James Kirsch,edited by Ann Conrad Lammers, Routledge 2011Chapter 18 278Introduction to First Reflections: Initial Responses to C. G. Jung’s Red Book (Liber Novus)Based on essays presented in San Francisco, 4–6 June 2010From The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus, edited by Thomas B. Kirsch and George Hogenson, Routledge 2013Chapter 19 283A Lifelong Reading of JungFrom How and Why We Still Read Jung: Personal and Professional Reflections,edited by Jean Kirsch and Murray Stein, Routledge 2013Chapter 20 307Jung’s Relationship with Jews and JudaismFrom Analysis and Activism: Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology,edited by Emilija Kiehl, Mark Saban, and Andrew Samuels, Routledge, 2016

'The footprints of Dr. Thomas Kirsch’s journey as an inheritor and lifelong contributor to the Jungian tradition are tracked in this fine volume. The full arc of his contributions to Jungian organizations, theory, history, and clinical practice unfold in these pages which reveal Kirsch as a man with rare gifts of insight, thoughtfulness and feeling who did not dodge landmines in his own psyche, in Jung’s legacy or in his colleagues. Born of a mother and father who were both Jungian analysts, some eighty years later Dr. Kirsch became the first person ever to be interviewed on film in Jung’s Bolllingen library where his modesty and deep knowledge of the human psyche show him to be that rarest bird, a Jungian "wise old man" who has lived fully the hand that fate dealt him.' - Thomas Singer, M.D., USA