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Possession Jung's comparative anatomy of the psyche

This study offers insights into a fundamental concept of analytical psychology. Anatomizing Jung's concept of possession reinvests Jungian psychotherapy with its positive potential for practice. Analogizing the concept--lining it up comparatively beside the history of religion, anthropology, psychiatry, and even drama and film criticism--offers not a naive syncretism, but enlightening possibilities along the borders of these diverse disciplines. An exploration of phenomena both ancient and modern, this book offers a conceptual bridge between psychology and anthropology, it challenges psychiatry to culturally contextualize its diagnostic manual, and it posits a much more fluid, pluralistic and embodied notion of selfhood. --From publisher's description.

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