Controversies in analytical psychology / [edited by] Robert Withers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Robert Withers -- Controversy 1. Prospects for the Jung/Klein synthesis. a. With healing in her wings: integration and repair in a self-destructive adolescent / Elizabeth Urban. b. Classical Jungian comment / Julian David. c. Kleinian comment / Robert Hinshelwood. d. Response to commentaries by Julian David and Robert Hinshelwood / Elizabeth Urban -- Controversy 2. The status of developmental theory. a. Uneasy ghosts: theories of the child and the crisis in psychoanalysis / Christopher Hauke. b. Jung, Jungians and the idea of birth trauma / Joann Culbert-Koehn -- Controversy 3. Transference, countertransference and beyond. a. Transcending the transference / Verena Kast. b. Working in the transference / Barry Proner. c. Response to Barry Proner / Verena Kast -- Controversy 4. The political in analysis. a. Working directly with political, social and cultural material in the therapy session / Andrew Samuels. b. Politics in practice / Robert Withers. c. Response / Andrew Samuels -- Controversy 5. Analysis and implicit homophobia. a. Analytical psychology and homosexual orientation / Chess Denman. b. A comment on Denman / Richard Carvalho. c. Response to Carvalho / Chess Denman. d. Reply to Denman's response / Richard Carvalho -- Controversy 6. Approaching religion. a. Analytical psychology, religion and the academy / Roderick Main. b. Religion and the terrified / Melanie Withers -- Controversy 7. The body, analysis and homeopathy. a. Alchemy, homeopathy and the treatment of borderline cases / Edward Whitmont. b. The demonization of the body in analysis / Robert Withers -- Controversy 8. The contemporary status of archetypal theory. a. Archetypal theory: the evolutionary dimension / Anthony Stevens. b. Psyche, language and biology: the argument for a co-evolutionary approach / Paul Kugler -- Controversy 9. Reflections on the anima and culture. a. The psychological feminine and contrasexuality in analyitcal psychology / Joy Schaverien. b. Jung and the feminine / Ann Shearer -- Controversy 10. Frequency of sessions and the analytic frame. Frequency of sessions and the analytic frame / Moira Duckworth and Martin Stone -- Controversy 11. The role of interpreting and relating in analytic therapy. a. Does psychoanalysis heal? A contribution to the theory of psychoanalytic technique / Robert Caper. b. Interpretation and relationship: ends or means? A commentary on Caper / Warren Colman. c. Response to Colman / Robert Caper. d. Reply to Caper / Warren Colman.