|
by: Edward F. Edinger
List Price: $34.00Amazon.com's Price: $30.60 You Save: $3.40 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 150.1954
EAN: 9780812690095
ISBN: 0812690095
Label: Open Court Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Open Court Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 284
Publication Date: February 19, 1991
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 117720
Studio: Open Court Publishing Company
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
'Edinger has greatly enriched my understanding of psychology through the avenue of alchemy. No other contribution has been as helpful as this for revealing, in a word, the anatomy of the psyche and how it applies to where one is in his or her process. This is a significant amplification and extension of Jung's work. Two hundred years from now, it will still be a useful handbook and an inspiring aid to those who care about individuation'. -- Psychological Perspectives
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Most excellent resource for individuating humans
Used this book in an art class in applied alchemy....it is a great resource.
Rating: - Yet another therapist likes it!
This would be a valuable text for anyone working with the Jungian model of alchemy, but I'll echo the view that it is not exactly a beginner's book. If you're new to this kind of work, a good place to start would be Calvin Hall's Primer of Jungian Psychology.
Excellent companions to Anatomy would be Jung on Active Imagination, edited by Chodorow, and Jung's own Memories, Dreams and Reflections, or Man and His Symbols.
Edinger's book would also be a smart buy for anyone ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Resource
This is an excellent resource for those already familiar with Jung's work, and I agree with a previous reviewer that it should be considered an intermediate-level text. I disagree with another reviewer who slams this book because of its spiritual connotations and because of disagreements on specific interpretations. Allow me to comment as yet another practicing therapist in this set of reviews. My personal experience of this book is that nearly every page stimulated further insight into my own life ... Read More
Rating: - Superb
This book is simply superb. Edinger is a master of his field. As a Jungian analyst who teaches Jungian psychology at all levels, I have found this book the best intermediate-level text for studying what Jung's psychology is about and how the process of psychotherapy actually works. Edinger's prose is clear and concise and examples abound. The book is thorough, readable, and an absolutely accurate description of the role of alchemical symbols in personal growth.
Rating: - A great introduction to a fascinating subject
If I had my time over again I would read these three books on alchemy in the following order: All of them are excellent in their own sphere to introduce a complex process.
(1) The Forge and the Crucible - Eliade
This is an excellent prehistory of alchemy showing the patterns of thought out of which Alchemy most probably arose. An easy read.
(2) Anatomy of the Soul - Edinger
Set out according to seven processes involved in alchemy Calcinatio, Solutio, Coagulatio, Sublimatio, ... Read More
|
