I should confess that my total understanding of psychology is a college 101 class, so this is really not my world. I have a million other topics I need to study, but I've always been fascinated by Jung. Jung: Normal is the Ideal Aim of the Unsuccessfulįirst, I love this book because it's short. Tim Pigott-Smith did a great job narrating the book. Stevens did a great deal of research and has the magnificence ability to summarize a complex person and his ideas and system of psychology into understandable and interesting book for a lay person. He explains Jung’s relationship with Freud and refutes the anti-Semitism charges that floated around since before World War Two. Stevens’ book is a well written, comprehensive over view of Jung’s ideas and biography. He has co-author several books on evolutionary psychiatry. Anthony Stevens a British psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. Stone is the master of the biographical novel. The only thing I knew about Jung was what I had read back in 1971 when I read Irving Stone’s “The Passions of the Mind” about the life of Sigmund Freud. When I saw this short book I jumped at it, thinking I could learn a bit about Jung so I would not feel so stupid when we get together. I have a friend who is a Jungian scholar who is writing a book on some aspect of Jung.
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