Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf <br/><br/>
From the wrong side : a paradoxical approach to psychology 

 - Woodstock, CT  Spring Publications  c1995* 
 - i-v; 164p. 
<br/><br/> Distinguishes between personal, collective, and transcendent creativity.  Shows that the notion that creativity, spontaneity, and independence should be the goal of psychological development is tied to the God complex., p1-21.. 'Sinister fathers - healthy children,' p23-49. 'Sons and daughters of unusual fathers,' p39-49., p23-49.. Father Archetype : On the destructiveness of powerful, creative fathers, p39- 49. On the benefits of experiencing the negative father archetype, p23-38.. '...whenever the divine child appears, its archetypal opposite also emerges: the destroyer of the child, the child killer.', p51-66.. Discusses the search for the meaning of physical illness and suffering, and criticizes psychosomatic-medicine as often moralistic and having evolved a mythology 'which often rests on minimal connections to scientific medicine.', p105-12.. Guggenbuehl-Craig, Adolf : 'a classic Jungian journey.', p133-64.. Paradox : Postscript: 'The value of a paradoxical approach to psychology', p129-31.. Handel, Sidney    A commentary on the work and thought of Adolf Guggenbuehl-Craig  Jungian journey.', p156-64.  Ed. and trans. from the German by Gary Hartman. Orig. pub. as Vom Guten des Boesen, Einseideln, Daimon Verlag. With new. intro by Guggenbuhl-Craig (i-v).  'Commentary on the work and thought of Adolf-Guggenbuhl Craig (including bibliog.)' by Sidney Handel (p133-=66). 
<br/><br/>Chapters: 1. Creativity, spontaneity, independence: three children of the devil - 2. Sinister fathers -- healthy children - 3. Sons and daughters of unusual fathers - 4. Myth and reality of sexual abuse of children - 5. The blessings of violence - 6. The felicitous revival of nationalism in Europe - 7. No answer to Job - 8. The basilisk -- autonomous sexuality 
<br/><br/> A challenge to many dearly held social and psychological assumptions from the author of Power in the Helping Professions. 
<br/><br/> Paperback 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0882143573 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96038017 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jungian psychology<br/>Culture--Psychological aspects<br/>Opposites<br/>Creation (Literary, Artistic, etc.)<br/>Inflation, Psychic<br/>Father and Child<br/>Father Archetype<br/>Child sexual abuse<br/>Children<br/>Archetype (Psychology)<br/>Mythology--Psychological Aspects<br/>Aggressiveness<br/>Shadow<br/>Individual and the Collective<br/>Nationalism<br/>Sick--Psychology<br/>Suffering<br/>Sex<br/>Basilisks (Mythical animals)<br/>Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf<br/>Paradox<br/>Individuation (Psychology)<br/>Sexual Abuse
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF173 .G7713 1995