There is great awareness of the high levels of anxiety and doubt in young people but apart from seeing it as mental illness, the meaning and reason for this has not been much explored.  Seeing it as a lack of rites of passage or a possible archetypal and prospective need has not been much approached.  Looking at it developmentally, as connected to the Spirit of Our Times as well as to the Spirit of the Depths will be attempted.

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Gillian Kind is a Senior Training Jungian Analyst, living in Fulham, London.  She is a member of IGAP, GAP and the UKCP. She is interested in the overlap of psychiatry, psychology and religion.

‍Constance Knox is a BACP trained counsellor working primarily with young people and young adults. She has worked in schools for over three years and has a private practise seeing teenagers and adults. Constance has been in Jungian analysis for over four years and is particularly interested in how Jung's work can help the younger generations.

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Paul, Sheryl, Wisdom of Anxiety, Sounds True: 2019

Jung, C.G., Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Jung, C.G., Collected Works Vol.18 The Symbolic Life, §§608-696

van Gennep, A., Rites of Passage, London & Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960

Stevens, A. The Two Million-Year-Old Self, Texas A & M University Press: 1993

Erikson, Eric H., Identity and the Life Cycle, New York & London: W.W. Norton1980

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