The Dove in the Consulting Room: Hysteria and the Anima in Bollas and Jung

Psychoanalysis began over a century ago as a treatment for hysteria and it has recently turned its attention to hysteria once again. Provocative and original, The Dove in the Consulting Room engages critically with psychoanalysis -- and in particular with the phenomenon of hysteria's return to analysis -- from a Jungian perspective. Drawing on the works of Jung, Freud, Hillman, Giegerich, Bollas, and others, the author provides a lively and compelling Jungian analysis of analysis itself - both Freudian and Jungian. The Dove in the Consulting Room is illuminating reading for the professional analyst and for anyone interested in the spiritual and cultural importance of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. Book jacket.

Greg Mogenson is a graduate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. The author of many articles in the field of analytical psychology, he is in private practice in London, Ontario, Canada