Psychotherapy

Von Franz's essay on The Inferior Function is rich enough to be food for thought throughout your life, that's how excellent it is. There's a shorter version of the same paper in a different book with an essay on The Feeling Function by James Hillman, but the version in this volume is much more complete. That one paper is worth the price of admission, but since Marie-Louise was a marvel I'd recommend anything she wrote. I've read most all of her work a number of times over the years. But her book on Time just might be a struggle for me forever. The fact that a woman like her existed has kept me going through those difficult times when I felt that all women are surely mad. Ha.An excellent companion to this essay would be her book 'Shadow and Evil In Fairy Tales'. Re-reading these books throughout my life I think what I've experienced is this: von Franz and other remarkable analysts work with patients who have issues that represent extreme examples of human experience, disturbed as it may be. The analyst's view emerges in their books and lectures. As we live, we have new experiences--not all 'good' by any means--and these provide new personal touchstones which enable us to recognize elements of human psychology that we hadn't seen before. When I re-read a good book like these after ten more years of living, it's even better and more apt than the last time I read it.

This is an important book for those interested in Jungian Psychology. It helps give one a practical understanding of some of the more important themes that come up in therapy. Having read several of von Franz's analyses of fairy tales, and been quite impressed with her sensitivity and depth of understanding, I was looking forward to seeing her principles at work in a practical setting. I was not disappointed. Von Franz was a "thinking" type (unfortunately she died in 1998), and it shows in the quality and clarity of her writing. Many specific examples are included that help keep the theory grounded in the reality of everyday life.This book is a collection of essays that were published at different times in different journals. The first essay (which takes up about 40% of the book), covers the inferior function. It is a great help to those who are trying to determine their own type and perhaps the types of loved ones. This is important, because understanding types can help you become aware of and anticipate your own and others weaknesses, and deal with them in a constructive manner. Other essays cover active imagination, the nature of transference, projection, group psychology and analysis as a profession. Each essay contains rare insights, refreshing points of view, analyzed dreams and a healthy dose of von Franz's distinctive personality. This book helped me pull together a lot of ideas that were expounded in other books with a narrower focus. Like her other books, it is most rewarding to those who take the time to reflect on what is being said. Together with Edward F. Edinger, von Franz will continue to allow a broader audience to appreciate Jung's genius. Recommended.

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One of the best collections of her essays. "The Inferior Function" is worth the price of the book alone for this essay is the best exposition of Jungian typology I've read - including the author's own book on the subject.

Von Franz is the Bomb! So great. Each sentence is an "Aha!", overturning yet another stone in the Zenith rock garden of C.G. Jung.

Marie-Louise von Franz covered many topics and gave many examples of Jungian psychotherapy.

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The third book in a trilogy of collected writings,this volume is mainly dedicated to the psychology of personality types, as defined by C.Jung.The proposal is that individuation,and personal wholeness,is reached through the development of the inferior function by overcoming the dominance of the superior function,with help from the two auxiliary functions(there being four main functions in total),thus developing and integrating them all into a quaternary of psychic tools that are more accessible to the whole personality without the overall dominance of any one of them. The remaining chapters cover ground that will be familiar to readers of any of the authors previous works and are somewhat shorter but no less informative.The topics covered include;Active Imagination,Attitudes towards the unconscious,Transference,Projection and Group Psychology.Although I have read the authors previous works on these subjects she managed to present them in a fresh way which seems to enhance the subjects without repeating herself,although some of the dream interpretations I found familiar from previous books. As with most of M.L von Franz's work,she presents what would otherwise be tortuous academic theories in a manner that is intelligible and entertaining and brings the works of C.Jung to a wider audience.My main fear when purchasing this volume was that it would contain material already in publication but I found that not to be the case and I'd recommend it to anyone who has even a passing interest in psychology or personality types.

Truly excellent collection of essays by one of the foremost writers on Jung of the time. Accessible even if you are not already au fait with the theories, this was a very good read; enlightening and dare I say it, entertaining.

A very good book for understanding how the process of therapy for a Jungian purspective works.Marie Louise Von Franz at her best

If you're familiar with her work, this is another marvellous collection of her wisdom and erudite insights into what's behind the discrepancies between how we tick and how we talk. A beauty of this book is that you can pick it up and open it anywhere and get food for thought.

Very very detailed and clear