This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (19472019), whose original clinical theory constitutes a major contribution to the areas of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Clarks work influenced generations of analytical psychologists, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trainees in England, Australia and elsewhere. His oeuvre covers important themes such as psychoanalysis as a deeply relational, mutually transformative and intersubjective endeavor; how, as wounded healers, analysts learn the art of recycling their own madness so as better to assist their patients; the clinical treatment of borderline and narcissistic disturbances and personality disorders; and psychosomatic issues as manifest and experienced in transference and countertransference relations in the analytic field. The book also explores the relevance of Spinoza, Santayana, Jung and German Romantic philosophers to analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, not merely in historical or theoretical terms but as a vital resource to guide clinical practice as demonstrated through a series of compelling case studies.
The Collected Writings of Giles Clark is of great interest to Jungian analysts, analytical psychologists and psychotherapists in practice and in training, as well as anyone interested in understanding the interface between depth psychology, philosophy and neuropsychology, and in the mind-body problem more generally.
This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947-2019), whose original clinical theory constitutes a major contribution to the areas of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy.
Introduction to Collected Writings of Giles Clark
1. A process of
transformation: Spiritual puer, instinctual shadow and instinctual spirit
2.
A black hole in psyche
3. Animation through the analytical relationship: The
embodiment of self in the transference and countertransference
4. How much
Jungian theory is there in my practice?
5. The animating body: Psychoid
substance as a mutual experience of psychosomatic disorder
6. Mind-body
intimacies and pains
7. A Spinozan lens onto the confusions of borderline
relations
8. A Jungian inheritance of lack and loss: Reflections on my
Jungian ancestry
9. The active use of the analysts bodymind: as it is
informed by psychic disturbances
10. Symbolising and not-symbolising
11.
Romantic catastrophes and other vital realities
12. Embodied
countertransference and recycling the mad matter of symbolic equivalence
13.
Unconscious structures and defences
14. On psychosis
15. Herders force:
pluralism, expressivism, mind-body relations and empathy
16. Psychoid
relations in the transferential/countertransferential field of personality
disorders
17. Towards a psychoanalytic Spinoza: Reflections on his philosophy
and the psychotherapeutic mind
18. Why (and how) psychoid relations matter
19. The matter of an oddly embodied mind: My spiritual travels with a
faithful but savage pet dog
20. Last jottings Bibliography of works by
Giles Clark
Judith Pickering is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Jungian analyst and couple and family therapist in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways Through Psychological Obstacles to Love (Routledge, 2008); The Search for Meaning in Psychotherapy: Spiritual Practice, the Apophatic Way and Bion (Routledge, 2019).
Geoffrey Samuel is a retired social, cultural and medical anthropologist. His books include Mind, Body and Culture (1990), Civilized Shamans (1993) and The Origins of Yoga and Tantra (2008). He is interested in mind-body interaction and healing in anthropological theory, in Buddhist practice and in dialogue between traditions of knowledge.
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