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Summary: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
Review: I have to disagree with Mr McGarry's review. Psychoanalysis is passé for treatment of Sz with good reason: it has zero positive impact. I have a good friend with Sz and introspective analysis is of no help, it's quite bad for him actually. It's all about pharmacology now. In that sense, yes, analysis is passé - very true. It doesn't help. However, for me, as a friend and sometimes caregiver (of sorts) for someone with schizophrenia, I find Jung's insight into Sz absolutely illuminating and original. Brilliant, wonderful, accurate. Completely unlike anything else under the sun. No one understands or describes mental disorder more clearly than Carl Jung. Since it is no longer fashionable or interesting to analyze schizophrenia, I doubt anyone will ever surpass Jung's contribution in this area. These books should never be allowed to go out of print.
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Summary: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
Review: I have to disagree with Mr McGarry's review. Psychoanalysis is passe for treatment of Sz with good reason: it has zero positive impact. I have a good friend with Sz and introspective analysis is of no help, it's quite bad for him actually. It's all about pharmacology now. In that sense, yes, analysis is passe - very true. It doesn't help. However, for me, as a friend and sometimes caregiver (of sorts) for someone with schizophrenia, I find Jung's insight into Sz absolutely illuminating and original. Brilliant, wonderful, accurate. Completely unlike anything else under the sun. No one understands or describes mental disorder more clearly than Carl Jung. Since it is no longer fashionable or interesting to analyze schizophrenia, I doubt anyone will ever surpass Jung's contribution in this area. These books should never be allowed to go out of print.
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Summary: Jung on Schizophrenia
Review: This is Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Carl Jung (1875-1961), "The Psychogenesis of Mental Illness". Most of the volume consists of his general thoughts on "Dementia Precox" & schizophenia. As insightful as Jung is in general, these are not the most illuminating writings. In light of recent neurobiological work on the origin and treatment of schizophrenia, this primarily psychoanalytic approach to the condition will seem passe, to say the least. The practical value of these writing in the treatment of persons suffering from schizophrenia is minimal. The volume would be most valuable for someone who wanted to understand the edifice of Jungian thought as a whole; in that context, some of these writings, in presenting Jung's understanding of the psyche as a dynamic system, would elucidate further his remarks about archetypal psychology in other writings.
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Summary: Jung on Schizophrenia
Review: This is Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Carl Jung (1875-1961), "The Psychogenesis of Mental Illness". Most of the volume consists of his general thoughts on "Dementia Precox" & schizophenia. As insightful as Jung is in general, these are not the most illuminating writings. In light of recent neurobiological work on the origin and treatment of schizophrenia, this primarily psychoanalytic approach to the condition will seem passe, to say the least. The practical value of these writing in the treatment of persons suffering from schizophrenia is minimal. The volume would be most valuable for someone who wanted to understand the edifice of Jungian thought as a whole; in that context, some of these writings, in presenting Jung's understanding of the psyche as a dynamic system, would elucidate further his remarks about archetypal psychology in other writings.
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