Isabelle Meier

English summary: Understanding and treating depression, with its usually complex disturbance pattern, plays a central role in C.G. Jung=s analytical psychology. This book is intended as a guide to the theory and practice of Jungian psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for depressive disorders. Special emphasis is given to flexibility and to the concepts of transference and countertransference in treatment, in order to do justice to the uniqueness of the encounter with depressed people. The explanations are illustrated with numerous case examples from adult psychotherapy. German description: In der Analytischen Psychologie nach C.G. Jung hat das Verstehen und Behandeln von Depressionen mit ihrem meist komplexen Storungsbild eine zentrale Stellung. Das Buch ist konzipiert als Leitfaden zu Theorie und Praxis der jungianischen Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse depressiver Storungen. Besonderer Wert wird auf Flexibilitat und auf Ubertragungs- und Gegenubertragungskonzepte in der Behandlung gelegt, um der Einzigartigkeit der Begegnung mit depressiven Menschen gerecht zu bleiben. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele aus der Psychotherapie von Erwachsenen illustrieren die Ausfuhrungen.

Isabelle Meier presents a unique examination of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, viewed through the lens of analytical psychology. This relationship can have a huge impact on psychological development, yet it has been largely neglected in studies of the family.Meier explores both clinical and theoretical material throughout the book. In the first part she dissects archetypal images in the intergenerational relationship, particularly as shown in fairy tales, myths and legends. From the ‘wise old woman/man’ to the ‘wicked witch’ or the ‘old wizard’, memories and experiences of these archetypes can be stored in the implicit memory and activated later in life. The second part looks at the processes and functions of implicit memory and examines the concept of the complex as it applies to grandparents, using Stern’s studies on the present moment and intersubjective phenomena. Finally, in part three, Meier presents case studies from her own practice.Grandparents will be essential reading for Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, analytical psychologists and those in training. It will also be of interest to academics and students of Jungian studies, myth and anthropology, and readers looking to explore intergenerational family relationships.

Isabelle Meier presents a unique examination of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, viewed through the lens of analytical psychology. This relationship can have a huge impact on psychological development, yet it has been largely neglected in studies of the family.Meier explores both clinical and theoretical material throughout the book. In the first part she dissects archetypal images in the intergenerational relationship, particularly as shown in fairy tales, myths and legends. From the ‘wise old woman/man’ to the ‘wicked witch’ or the ‘old wizard’, memories and experiences of these archetypes can be stored in the implicit memory and activated later in life. The second part looks at the processes and functions of implicit memory and examines the concept of the complex as it applies to grandparents, using Stern’s studies on the present moment and intersubjective phenomena. Finally, in part three, Meier presents case studies from her own practice.Grandparents will be essential reading for Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, analytical psychologists and those in training. It will also be of interest to academics and students of Jungian studies, myth and anthropology, and readers looking to explore intergenerational family relationships.

The book contains contributions for the 10th anniversary of ISAPZURICH, the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich. Several authors explain why they left the C.G. Jung Institute in Kusnacht in 2004 and why they founded ISAPZURICH. In addition, there are contributions describing the particular identity and image which have evolved around ISAPZURICH in recent years.

Das Buch enthalt Beitrage zum 10jahrigen Jubilaum von ISAPZURICH, dem Internationalen Seminar fur Analytische Psychologie in Zurich. Zahlreiche Autoren und Autorinnen erlautern die Grunde, wieso sie 2004 das C.G. Jung-Institut in Kusnacht verliessen und ISAPZURICH grundeten. Ausserdem werden die in den letzten Jahren entstandene Identitat und Wirkung nach aussen, die ISAPZURICH erreicht hat, beschrieben.

Das komplexe Symbol des Labyrinths wird beschrieben, indem die Begriffsgeschichte, die Funktion und der Symbolhintergrund darstellt wird. Erlautert wird ausserdem der Mythos von Theseus, Ariadne und Dionysos, der sich um das Labyrinth rankt und auf seinen symbolischen und seelischen Gehalt hin bezuglich des Individuationsweges fur die Bewusstwerdung des Mannes wie der Frau interpretiert.

Bei dieser Arbeit handelt es sich um eine explorative Studie ber Imaginationen. Das Erkenntnisinteresse betrifft die Frage, wie in Imaginationen unbewusste und vorbewusste Beziehungsmuster bearbeitet und neue Erlebnis- und Verhaltensm glichkeiten erprobt werden k nnen. Untersucht wird, ob Imaginationen den Prim rprozess aktivieren und wieweit in ihnen Emotionen und Beziehungsmuster positiver ablaufen als in Wacherz hlungen. Im empirischen Teil der Arbeit werden die Hypothesen anhand von 20 Tagtr umen von 12 Probandinnen und Probanden untersucht.