Roger Brooke

Phenomenology offers the psychologist a philosophical underpinning to clinical practice. The contributors examine the issues of commonality and difference, and the connection between existential phenomenology and analytical psychology.

Phenomenology and Analytical Psychology

Pathways Into the Jungian World

Constance T. Fischer

Leswin Laubscher

"Arguing that a purely STEM-centered approach to psychology is inadequate for understanding the experience of being human, these essays acknowledge psychology's roots in phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics, while discussing issues as diverse as empathy, cultural history, apartheid, sexual assault, fetishes, and our natural environment"--

An Invitation to a Human Science Approach

The Qualitative Vision for Psychology

Jung and Phenomenology is a classic text in the field of Jungian scholarship. Originally published in 1991, it continues to be essential to conversations regarding the foundations of Jungian thought. This Classic Edition of the book includes a brand new introduction by the author. Jung described his own approach as phenomenological, particularly as it contrasted with Freud’s psychoanalysis and with medical psychiatry. However, Jung’s understanding of phenomenology was inconsistent, and he writes with an epistemological eclecticism which leaves him often at cross purposes with himself. In Jung and Phenomenology, Brooke systematically addresses the central ideas of Jung’s thought. The major developments in the post-Jungian tradition are extensively integrated into the conversation, as are clinical issues, meaning that the book marks a synthesis of insights in the contemporary Jungian field. His reading and interpretation of Jung are guided by the question of what it is that Jung is trying to show but which tends to be obscured by his formulations. Examining the meaning of Jung’s theoretical ideas in concrete existential terms, Jung and Phenomenology is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychologists and students interested in the Jungian tradition and existential phenomenology.

Jung and Phenomenology

In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology. The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and analytical psychology have been involved in the same fundamental cultural and therapeutic project - both legitimize the subtlety, complexity and depth of experience in an age when the meaning of experience has been abandoned to the dictates of pharmaceutical technology, economics and medical psychiatry. The contributors reveal how Jung's relationship to the phenomenological tradition can be, and is being, developed, and rigorously show that the psychological resonance of the world is immediately available for phenomenological description.

Roger Brooke

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