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Jung Today is a project on the recent developments in Analytical Psychology, which gathers together contributions by internationally known professionals. It includes theoretical and clinical unpublished papers that are prevalently written by Italian Analytical Psychologists, together with some contributions by French, German, British and American Jungian analysts. The book is intended to address Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Child Psychotherapists and Social Workers.

Jung Today is conceived in two volumes: volume one is on adulthood and volume two is on childhood and adolescence.

The aim of volume one is to highlight the fertility of C.G. Jung’s Analytical Psychology and how basic Jungian concepts have been recognized by and integrated into modern psychology.

The first volume includes both theoretical and clinical contributions applied to adulthood; each chapter focuses on the fundamental themes of the analytical process, from its historical foundations up to the most recent developments. What emerges from the various contributions is the value of the Jungian and Post-Jungian approach in the treatment of so-called “new psychopathologies” in a broad sense, such as addictive behaviour and narcissistic disorders of various kinds, as well as other severe clinical conditions in the area of psychotic diseases.

Volume Two focuses on Infancy, and Childhood and Adolescence. Similarly to Volume One on Adulthood, no paper has formerly been published. Up-to-date reflections in each chapter highlight and develop cross fertilizations between Analytical Psychology and different models of Psychoanalysis.

Theoretically, core issues such as Transference and Countertransference, the development of Identity and Sexuality, and the analytic Setting are thoroughly examined in the light of Jungian and post-Jungian theories in comparison with contemporary psychoanalytic views. Theory, despite its appropriate and constant development, can never be detached from its clinical applications.

Technical issues applied to the analytic work with children and adolescents are described with as much careful detail as possible. Specific clinical topics, such as hyperkinesias or obsessional disorders, and developmental breakdowns are examined in this light.

On a final note, the applications of the method of Infant Observation to a Jungian understanding of psychic development in infants and young children, the issue of in-vitro fertilization, and the infant–parent therapeutic consultation are also treated in this volume.