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Michael Whan

SENIOR ANALYST
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PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES 

  • 2012: Myth, disenchantment and the loss of sacred place’, International Journal of Jungian Studies:
  • 2014: Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche: Book Review: Neurosis: The Logic of a Metaphysical Illness, International Journal of Jungian Studies: * This article was singled out by Psychology Progress to be of special interest in advancing the field of psychology, and highlighted on their website: www.psychologyprogress.com in 2013
  • 1980: ‘Hermetic Silence and Psychotherapy’, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1983: ‘Irony, Psychology and the Nature of the Question’, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1986: ‘Jung, Psychology and Science: a reply to David Black’, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1987: ‘Self-Knowledge, Ethos and Depth Psychology’, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1989: Five poems., Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1990: Book Review: The Multiplicity of Dreams, Memory, Imagination and Consciousness by Harry T. Hunt, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1994: Book Review: Spiritualism and the Foundations of C. G. Jung’s Psychology by F. X. Charet, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1992: Book Review: God’s Shadow and the Novice’s Stones by Francoise O’Kane, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1997: Naked And Errect: Male Sexuality and Feeling by Joel Ryce-Menuhin, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1998: ‘Jung, Nietzsche, and the Dehumanization of Nature: Psychological and Ecological Consciousness’, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 1999: Book Review: The Soul’s Logical Life: Towards A Rigorous Notion of Psychology by Wolfgang Giegerich, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • 2002: In Memoriam: David Holt, Harvest: Journal for Jungian Studies
  • Guild of Pastoral Psychology Pamphlet No. 306 Surprised By Words: Psyche and Symbol in the work of David Holt
  • 2004: A poem in: In A Wayward Mood: Selected Writings 1969-2002 by Daniel C. Noel
  • 1980: Dragonflies: Studies in Imaginal Psychology: ‘The Psychoanalytic Body: The Imaginary and The Uncanny’
  • 1999: European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling And Health: ‘Registering Psychotherapy as an institutional Neurosis: or, compounding the estrangement between Soul and world’
  • 2001: ‘Case History: hermeneutics and suggestibility: a Response to “Poor Girl”: a case of active psychosis’
  • 2002: Psychodynamic Practice: Individuals, groups and Organizations: Book review: Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities by Christopher Hauke
  • 2005: Book review: Controversies in Analytical Psychology Robert Withers (ed.) et al (including Ann Shearer)
  • 1987: Chiron: Archetypal Process in Psychotherapy: ‘Chiron’s Wound: Some reflections on the Wounded-Healer’

SPRING: A JOURNAL OF ARCHETYPE AND CULTURE

  • 1978: “Don Juan,” Trickster, and Hermeneutic Understanding
  • 1987: ‘On the Nature of Practice’
  • 1994: ‘Archaic Mind and Modernist Consciousness’
  • 2006: 17 poems (published in the two volumes of this issue) and an article: ‘The Unsaying of Stone in Jung’s Psychology’
  • 2010: ‘The vicissitudes of Spirit in Jung’s Psychology: A Response To Giegerich’s “God Must Not Die!”’

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • 2000, ‘How to Square the Medicine Wheel: Jung’s Use of the Mandala as a Schema of the Psyche’, in Drawing The Soul: Schemas and Models in Psychoanalysis, ed.,Bernard Burgoyne
  • 2003, ‘Mercurius, archetype, and “transpychic reality”: C. G. Jung’s parapsychology of spirit(s)’, in Psychoanalysis And the Paranormal: Lands of Darkness, ed., Nick Totton
  • 2003, ‘Registering Psychotherapy as an Institutional Neurosis: Or, compounding the estrangement between soul and world’, in Ethically Challenged Professions…enabling innovation and Diversity in psychotherapy and counselling, eds., Yvonne Bates and Richard House
  • 2014, ‘Aurum Vulgi: Alchemy in Analysis, a Critique of a Simulated Phenomenon’, in Alchemy And Psychotherapy: Post-Jungian Perspectives, ed., Dale Mathers

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

  • The International Society For Psychology as a Discipline of Interiority
  • 2012 Berlin Conference Papers: ‘Jung’s dream encounter with alchemy: distilling the psychological Notion of Interiority as an opus contra naturam Addendem to “Jung’s dream encounter with alchemy”: a critical revision’

OTHER ARTICLES

  • ‘"In history there is never a way back." – C. G. Jung’
  • 'Some thoughts on the Study of Myth and Fairy Tale in Jungian and Other Psychotherapy Trainings’
  • Newsletter (April, 2015), for the International Society for Psychology as a Discipline of Interiority: ‘The Logic of Image: simulating ‘mythic image’ in Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Parsifal II’