Jung, My Mother and I: The Analytical Diaries of Catharine Rush Cabot
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3856306013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 623 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Catharine Cabot's daughter, Jane Cabot Reid, who herself grew up in this same environment, skillfully edited the diary notes and added her own comments and memories, along with historic photographs and letters, many of them never before published. Today she is a Jungian analyst, living and working in Zürich, where many of the events recorded in these pages took place
The psychoanalytic writings of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) are well-known and biographies of every hue have been published. Onkel (Uncle), as Jung became to her, and his family and his friends, all were a part of her life in those years.. But what was Jung like in his workaday analytic sessions, and how did he interact with his clients, colleagues and friends on a daily basis? Catharine (Katy) Cabot, an American in Europe, was a patient of Jung's and also a part of his Zürich circle from the 1930's through the 1940's and she recorded the details of her sessions with him along with other inner and outer events
Alice O. Howell said Jung, My Mother and I. This book is a breakthrough in the category of books about Jung. Based on the careful notes of her analysis, handed to her daughter during the last of her life, Katy Cabot depicts a human, warm, gossipy side to the great psychologist. The result is an example of how he adapted himself to a young extraverted American ex-patriate socialite who sincerely wanted to grow. The plight of her young and only child [the author] is told with remarkable restraint, given the lack . Lewis H. Lafontaine said The early days of Depth Psychology as viewed by a Patient. I highly recommend this. It is about a woman [Katy Cabot] who knew Dr. Jung and most of the early pioneers of Depth Psychology.What makes this book so unique was that she was not an Analyst but rather a patient who saw Dr. Jung but mostly was a patient of Toni Wolff's so her diary entries of her analysis is both from her perspective as a woman and as a woman who was treated by another woman [Toni Wolff].The woman [Katy Cabot] was wealthy which proved to be both a bles
Today she is a Jungian analyst, living and working in Zürich, where many of the events recorded in these pages took place . About the Author Catharine Cabot's daughter, Jane Cabot Reid, who herself grew up in this same environment, skillfully edited the diary notes and added her own comments and memories, along with historic photographs and letters, many of them never before published