It is well known that Jung's investigation of Eastern religions and cultures supplied him with an abundance of cross-cultural comparative material, useful to support his hypotheses of the existence of archetypes, the collective unconscious and other manifestations of psychic reality. However, the specific literature dealing with this aspect has previously been quite scarce. This unique edited collection brings together contributors writing on a range of topics that represent an introduction to the differences between Eastern and Western approaches to Jungian psychology.
Readers will discover that one interesting feature of this book is the realization of how much Western Jungians are implicitly or explicitly inspired by Eastern traditions - including Japanese - and, at the same time, how Jungian psychology - the product of a Western author - has been widely accepted and developed by Japanese scholars and clinicians.
Scholars and students of Jungian studies will find many new ideas, theories and practices gravitating around Jungian psychology, generated by the encounter between East and West. Another feature that will be appealing to many readers is that this book may represent an introduction to Japanese philosophy and clinical techniques related to Jungian psychology.
About the Author: Konoyu Nakamura is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka, Japan. She is involved in clinical work at her private practice in Kyoto as a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist. She has contributed chapters to several books, including Analytical Psychology in a Changing World: The Search for Self, Identity and Community (2015) and Jungian Perspective on Rebirth and Renewal Phoenix Rising (2017). She was responsible for translating Susan Rowland's Jung: A Feminist Revision into Japanese (2021). She is a member of the International Association for Jungian Studies and is a member of the Executive of Committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies for the 2015-2020 term and she was also Co-Chair of the 2019 IAJS Regional Conference, Osaka, Japan, at Otemon Gakuin University.
Stefano Carta is a psychologist and a Jungian analyst graduate at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He is Professor of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and Honorary Professor at the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK. He is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology, and of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia Analitica (AIPA), of which he was the President for the 2002-2006 term. He has been the representative for Italy at the United Nations' International Union of Psychological Sciences. He has also been a consultant for UNESCO, for which he has edited a three-volume entry on psychology for the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. He is the the director of the oldest Jungian Journal in Italy, The Rivista di Psicologia Analitica, and has been the deputy Europe editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.
