Florence '98: Destruction and Creation: Personal and Cultural Transformations

The Fourteenth Congress for Analytical Psychology was held August 23-28, 1998 in the ancient city of Florence, Italy.

Duccio's Prayer: Mediating Destruction and Creation with Artists in Analysis; Manifestation of the Archetype in Children's Reality; Medication in the Materia: Doctorly Destructiveness or Chemical Creativity?; The Infant and the Depressed Mother; Destruction and Containment in the Analytic Relationship; Masochism: Sacred Suffering; Under the Volcano: Varieties of Anger and Their Transformation; Music and Melancholy: Marsilio Ficino's Archetypal Music Therapy; Almost Two Thousand Years and Not a Single New God: Nietzsche's Reception by Jung and Heidegger in the Abyss of National Socialism; Return of the Prodigal: The Emergence of Jungian Themes in Post-Freudian Thought; The Problem of Evil in Postmodern Reality; Shame as Teacher: "Lowly Wisdom" at the Millennium; The Reawakening of the Anima Mundi ; Portraits of Suffering Trees: Destruction of Nature and Transformation of Consciousness; Raping the Soul: An Experience of Active Imagination; Destructiveness and Healing: Epistemological and Jungian Reflections; The Millennium Rite of Passage; Integration of the Self in a New Global Culture; Archetypal Images of Destruction and Creation: The Congress through the Feminine Looking-Glass; Scarred Body; Scarred Psyche: Drawing the Jewel from the Wounds; Illness and Creativity; Transsexualism or Transcendence Unattainable; Analytical Psychology in Various Cultural Settings (Panel); Cultural Transformation in China: Where the Twain Shall Meet; The Search for Cultural and Personal Identity of Second-Generation Foreigners; Beyond the Story: From Interpretation to the Impact of Stories from Different Cultures; Breaking of the Vessels: Destruction and Creation in the Art of Anselm Kiefer; Destruction and Creative Interplay: In Artistic and Therapeutic Processes; Art within the Analytic Relationship: Scapegoat and Transformation; Sandplay: A Place of Transformation; What Constitutes a Good Jungian Analyst: Implications for Training (Panel); Poisons and Panaceas: in Analytic Training (Panel); Alchemy in the Image of the Analyst; Supervision (Panel); In My End Is My Beginning: Exploring the "Breakdown/Breakthrough" Cycle; A Dark Talent: Silence in Analysis; Creating and Destroying: Dionysiac Images of Dismemberment, Death and Renewal; Letting Go of the "Unified Theory" Concept (Panel); Current Developments in Infant Observation Research (Panel); Empirical Research in Psychoanalysis Analytic Psychotherapy (Panel).