Edward F. Edinger: The Living Psyche

Edward F. Edinger: The Living Psyche: There are only a handful of published case histories which illustrate the unique approach of Jung to the human psyche. This is understandable, for as Jung says, It is … a difficult and thankless task to try to describe the nature of the individuation process from case-material. Since one aspect tends to predominate in one case and another in another, and one case begins earlier and another later, and psychic conditions vary without limit, only one or the other version or phase of the process can be demonstrated in any given instance. Nevertheless, such data on individual cases must be accumulated if the larger worlds of psychiatry and psychotherapy are, belatedly, to realize Jung’s massive contribution. It is an impossible task to condense the analytic efforts of ten years into a coherent whole without some unifying thread.