Possession : Jung's comparative anatomy of the psyche

Introduction - Jung's concept of possession--an organic approximation. 1 The possessions at Loudun: tracking the discourse of possession. 2 The anthropology of possession: studying the other. 3 Possession enters the discourse of psychiatry: recuperation or epistemological break?. 4 Reading Jung's equivocal language. 5 Jung's concept of possession and the practice of psychotherapy. 6 The suffering of Myrtle Gordon: Cassavetes's Opening Night and Chaikin's Open Theatre. 7 Closing

'...makes the remarkable and convincing argument that Jung's understanding of the phenomena of possession lies at the basis of his analytical psychology. Drawing on contemporary insights on possession from anthropology, as well as from psychology, and without subordinating either discipline to the epistemology or conceptual apparatus of the other, Dr. Stephenson re-theorizes how Jung's notion of possession may be used to open and illuminate the problematic space between society, patient and therapist in the therapeutic encounter.'

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