The inner world of trauma; archetypal defenses of the personal spirit

Defense Mechanisms (Psychology) : the archetypal self-care system.. For dream series and case studies, see index under case studies. Food addiction, p28-40. Demon lover, p166-183 (also see index under daimon-lover). Fairy Tales: Fitcher's Bird; Rapunzel; Prince Lindworm. See Chapter 4 for Jung's views on trauma; See Chapter 5 for contributions by Jungians to trauma theory by Erich Neumann, Leopold Stein, Michael Fordham, James Hillman, Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Sherry Salman, Donald Sandner, John Beebe, Joseph Henderson, Jeffrey Satinover, Carl Savitz, Peter Mudd, Ann and Barry Ulanov, Marion Woodman, Clarissa Estes Pinkola, Linda Leonard, and John Haule. See Chapter 6 for clinicians outside the Jungian field: Edmund Bergler, Charles Odier, Sandor Ferenczi, Melanie Klein, Wilfed Bion, D.W. Winnicott, Michael Eigen, Ronald Fairbairn, Harry Guntrip, James Grotstein, Otto Kernberg, Davies and Frawley, Masterson, Seinfeld, Colin A. Ross, and Kavaler-Adler

1. The inner world of trauma in its diabolic form. 2. Further clinical illustrations of the self-care system. 3. Freud and Jung's dialogue about trauma's inner world. 4. Jung's contribution to a theory of the self-care system. 5. Additional Jungian contributions. 6. Psychoanalytic theory about the self-care system. 7. Rapunzel and the self-care system. 8. Psyche and her daimon-lover. 9. Fitcher's bird and the dark side of the self. 10. Prince Lindworm and transformation of the daimonic through sacrifice and choice

What happens in the inner world when life in the outer world becomes unbearable? Jungian analyst Kalsched focuses on the inner world of trauma, especially on unconscious fantasy as illustrated in dreams, transference and mythology (e.g. Rapunzel, Eros and Psyche, Fitcher's Bird, Prince Lindworm).

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