Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 1 - by C G Jung (Paperback)

About the Book

The authoritative edition of early psychiatric studies by Jung, which foreshadow much of his later work. Psychiatric Studies gathers writings on descriptive and experimental psychiatry that Jung published between 1902 and 1905, early in his career as a psychiatrist. The book opens with a study that foreshadows much of his later work and is indispensable to all serious students of his psychiatric career. This is his medical-degree dissertation, "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena," a detailed analysis of the case of an adolescent girl who professed to be a medium. This volume also includes papers on cryptomnesia, hysterical parapraxes in reading, manic mood disorder, simulated insanity, and other subjects.

Book Synopsis

The authoritative edition of early psychiatric studies by Jung, which foreshadow much of his later work

Psychiatric Studies gathers writings on descriptive and experimental psychiatry that Jung published between 1902 and 1905, early in his career as a psychiatrist. The book opens with a study that foreshadows much of his later work and is indispensable to all serious students of his psychiatric career. This is his medical-degree dissertation, "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena," a detailed analysis of the case of an adolescent girl who professed to be a medium. This volume also includes papers on cryptomnesia, hysterical parapraxes in reading, manic mood disorder, simulated insanity, and other subjects.

From the Back Cover

The volume opens with Jung's desertion for the medical degree: 'On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena, ' a study that foreshadows much of his later work and as such is indispensable to all serious students of his work.

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"This text reads with a freshness that is the hallmark of genius."-- "New England Journal of Medicine"