Michael Fordham

James Astor is a training analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London and a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists.

• Prologue; Chapter 1 Thinking into feeling; Chapter 2 Jung’s psychological model; Chapter 3 Jung and Fordham; Chapter 4 The self in infancy and childhood; Chapter 5 Ego development in infancy and childhood; Chapter 6 Archetypes; Chapter 7 Autism; Chapter 8 The discovery of the syntonic transference, and of the importance of analysing childhood; Chapter 9 Countertransference, interaction and not knowing beforehand; Chapter 10 Defences of the self, projective identification and identity; Chapter 11 Christian experience, mysticism and the self; Chapter 12 Synchronicity; Chapter 13 Afterword;

'This book will provide a useful amplication of Fordham's own work for students of analytical psyhology, and a sound introduction to it for analysts interested in understanding connections between post-Jungian and post-Kleinian thought.' - Oxford Psychotherapy Society Bulletin 24 November 1996