Fanny Brewster (USA Pacifica Graduate Institute)

African Americans and Jungian Psychology

Leaving the Shadows

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Produktbeschreibung

African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the shadows explores the little known racial relationship between the African diaspora and C.G. Jung's analytical psychology. In this unique book, Fanny Brewster explores the culture of Jungian psychology in America and its often difficult relationship with race and racism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781138952768
• ISBN-10: 1138952761
• Artikelnr.: 43677305

Autorenporträt

Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York and Professor of Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a member of the Association of Black Psychologists and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, and has been twice nominated for the Gradiva Award for her nonfiction writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Polly Young-Eisendrath. Introduction. 1. Jung¿s Early America:
Racial Relations and Racism 2. The Reality of Racial Chains and the Myth of
Freedom 3. American Racial Black and White Complexes 4 Africanist
Traditions and African American Culture 5. African Archetypal Primordial: A
map for Jungian psychology 6. Archetypal Grief of African American Women 7.
The Jungian Shadow 8. The Dreamers of Saint Elizabeth Hospital 9. African
American Cultural Consciousness and the Jungian Collective 10. The Promise
of Diversity 11. Summary: Healing through an Africanist Perspective. Index.