Body, Mind and Healing After Jung: A Space of Questions

284 Pages·2010·3.55 MB·English

by  Raya A. Jones

Body, Mind and Healing After Jung
It is difficult to point to an aspect of Jungian psychology that does not touch
on mind, body and healing in some way. In this book Raya A. Jones draws on
the triad of body, mind and healing and (re)presents it as a domain of
ongoing uncertainty within which Jung’s answers stir up further questions.
Contributors from both clinical and scholarly backgrounds offer a variety
of cultural and historical perspectives. Areas of discussion include:
(cid:127) the psychosomatic nature of patients’ problems
(cid:127) transference and countertransference
(cid:127) therapeutic techniques centred on movement or touch.
Striking a delicate balance between theory-centred and practice-oriented
approaches, Body, Mind and Healing After Jung is essential reading for all
Jungians.
Raya A. Jones, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff University, and has been an executive committee member of the
International Association for Jungian Studies.

Body, Mind and Healing
After Jung
A space of questions
Edited by Raya A. Jones
First published 2011
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Body, mind and healing after Jung : a space of questions / edited by
Raya A. Jones.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Mind and body. 2. Mental healing. 3. Jungian psychology.
I. Jones, Raya A.
BF161.B5675 2010
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction 1
RAYA A. JONES
1 Returning to life: trauma survivors’ quest for reintegration 14
GADI MAOZ AND VERED ARBIT
2 The body in psychotherapy: contributions of Merleau-Ponty 41
ROBERT ROMANYSHYN
3 The embodied psyche: movement, sensation, affect 62
DYANE N. SHERWOOD
4 The ‘Child’ motif in theorizing about embodied subjectivity 79
RAYA A. JONES
5 Fleshing out the psyche: Jung, psychology and the body 94
MARK SABAN
6 Staging the Self: performance, individuation and embodiment 110
MARK SABAN
7 The Buddhist concept of mind and body in diversity 127
SHOJI MURAMOTO
8 A Sami healer’s diagnosis: a case of embodied
countertransference? 145
BARBARA HELEN MILLER
vi Contents
9 Struggles, commercialism, ‘ideal’ feminine images and
internal oppression: eating disorders and the pursuit
of thinness in Japan 160
KONOYU NAKAMURA
10 Pregnant pause: procreative desire, reproductive technology
and narrative shifts at midlife 174
MARYANN BARONE-CHAPMAN
11 Mind the gap: explorations in the subtle geography of identity 192
AMANDA DOWD
12 The body in the postmodern world: a Jungian approach 211
ROSA MARIA FARAH
13 The body in psychotherapy: Calatonia and Subtle
Touch techniques 228
ANITA J. RIBEIRO-BLANCHARD, LEDA PERILLO SEIXAS
AND ANA MARIA GALRÃO RIOS
14 ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’: the transformative
power of posture and breath 250
SUZANNE FUSELIER AND DEBRA WINEGARDEN
Index 263
Contributors
Vered Arbit, MA, is an expressive art therapist and Jungian psychothera-
pist. She practises in Israel in a community art therapy centre and in
private practice. She has extensive experience and expertise in treating
post-traumatic and sexually abused women. She teaches and conducts
Jungian-oriented workshops in the field of treatment of dissociation and
trauma, and is currently a training candidate at IASPZURICH, Inter-
national School of Analytical Psychology.
Maryann Barone-Chapman MSc., Dip. Psych. is a candidate with the Associ-
ation of Jungian Analysts (London), and a PhD candidate (Cardiff). Her
PhD study explores women’s unconscious use of their bodies and its inter-
face with complexes of the collective unconscious. In 2005 she won first
prize for unpublished research at the First Joint Academic Conference of
the IAAP and IAJS. Currently she is a member of the Executive Commit-
tee of the International Association of Jungian Studies. She has published
in the Journal of Analytical Psychology (52:4, 2007) and the Journal of
Fertility Counselling (12:3, 2006). Maryann has a private practice in Lon-
don and a special interest in psyche-soma.
Amanda Dowd (ANZSJA, IAAP) is a Jungian analyst and psychoanalytic
psychotherapist who trained with the Australia and New Zealand Society
of Jungian Analysts. She has a private psychotherapy and supervision
practice in Sydney, Australia. She has particular interests in the formation
of self, mind, identity, cultural identity and trauma. Her current work
includes an exploration of the traumatic effects of migration for both
individual and culture and the interrelationships between psyche and
place.
Rosa Maria Farah is a psychotherapist in private practice. She is Professor in
Psychology, and has a Master’s Degree in Jungian Studies, at Pontifícia
Universidade Católica de São Paulo with a dissertation on ‘Cyberspace
and its surfers: new paths for the expression of old human conflicts’.
Author of Integração Psicofísica – O Trabalho Corporal e a Psicologia de
viii Contributors
C.G. Jung (Psychophysical Integration – Bodywork and Jung’s Psych-
ology), 2008; Editor of Psicologia e Informática – O ser humano diante das
novas tecnologias (Psychology and Informatics – the Human Being and
New Technologies), 2004, and coeditor of Relacionamentos na Era Digital
(Relationships in the Digital Era), with I. Fortim, 2007.
Suzanne Fuselier, CD, has practised in a variety of clinical settings in the
field of holistic healthcare since 1973. She completed her doctorate in
Chiropractic with honours in 1979 and was certified as a Feldenkrais
practitioner in 1996. Based in southern California, she has dedicated her
practice to an integrated, multidiscipline approach for her patients.
Raya A. Jones, PhD, is a senior lecturer in School of Social Sciences, Cardiff
University. She is the author of Jung, Psychology, Postmodernity
(Routledge, 2007) and The Child-School Interface (Cassell, 1995), and
coeditor of Education and Imagination (with Austin Clarkson, Sue Con-
gram and Nick Stratton, Routledge, 2008) and Cultures and Identities in
Transition (with Murray Stein, Routledge 2010). She was a member of the
executive committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies.
Gadi Maoz, PhD, is a senior clinical and medical psychologist and a training
analyst in the New Israeli Jungian Society. He is the chief psychologist of
Ha’amakim community mental health centre in the North Valleys region
of Israel. He has lectured in clinical and Jungian psychology at the Yezreel
Valley College and currently coordinates and teaches in the Jungian psy-
chotherapy programme at Oranim Academic College.
Barbara Helen Miller received her PhD in Anthropology from Leiden
University. Her dissertation is published as Connecting and Correcting: A
Case Study of Sami Healers in Porsanger (CNWS Publications, Vol. 151,
Leiden, 2007). She trained at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich and is cur-
rently president of the Netherlands Association for Analytical Psychology.
Shoji Muramoto, PhD, is a professor at Kobe City University of Foreign
Studies. He is the author of Jung and Goethe (1992), Jung and Faust
(1993) and papers on professional ethics, Daseinanalysis, humanistic
psychology, Kiyoshi Miki, East–West intellectual–spiritual history, Gnos-
ticism, Hildegard von Bingen, and Richard Wagner. He is the coeditor of
Awakening and Insights (with Polly Young-Eisendrath, 2002) and the trans-
lator of many books by and on Jung, Reich, and Kabbalah–Chassidism.
There is more about him at his personal website: www.5d.biglobe.ne.jp/
~shojimur/
Konoyu Nakamura, PhD, is a Professor at Otemon Gakuin University and
a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist. Her most recent work is ‘The image
of Mahavairocana-tatha-gata emerging from the therapist at a crucial
point in therapy’, in D. Mathers, M.E. Miller and O. Ando (eds) Self and
Contributors ix
No-self: Continuing the Dialogue between Buddhism and Psychotherapy
(Routledge, 2009).
Anita J. Ribeiro-Blanchard graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica
and trained as an integrative psychotherapist at Instituto Sedes Sapientiae,
in São Paulo. She received her Master’s degree in mental health from Nova
Southeastern University, Florida, USA, and has taught somatic psycho-
therapy internationally since 2002. She has practised in Brazil and the
USA, and currently works in the UK as a consultant psychotherapist in
private practice for the Oxford Stress and Trauma Centre. She specializes
in cross-cultural adjustment, and early trauma in child, adolescent and
adult.
Ana Maria Galrão Rios, psychotherapist, has a postgraduate specialization in
‘Jung and the Body’ (Instituto Sedes Sapientiae) and a Master’s degree in
Jungian Studies, with a dissertation on ‘The Image of God as a Symbol for
the Self in Children’ (Pontifícia Universidade Católica, São Paulo). She
has a special interest in developmental psychology, supervises students in
child psychotherapy and teaches Child Development in the postgraduate
course in Analytical Psychology at UniSa¯o Paulo.
Robert Romanyshyn, PhD, is on the core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Insti-
tute, California, and has been a practising psychotherapist since 1972. An
affiliate member of the InterRegional Society of Jungian Analysts, he is
the author of the following books: The Wounded Researcher (2007),
Mirror and Metaphor: Images and Stories of Psychological Life (2001),
Technology as Symptom and Dream (1989), The Soul in Grief: Love, Death
and Transformation (1999) and Ways of the Heart: Essays Toward an
Imaginal Psychology (2002), as well as numerous articles and essays in
phenomenology and archetypal psychology.
Mark Saban is a senior analyst with the Independent Group of Analytical
Psychologists, and practises in Oxford and London. His background
includes classics and theatre. He has written and lectured on Dionysus,
body, drama and alterity. He is currently a member of the executive com-
mittee of the International Association of Jungian Studies.
Leda Perillo Seixas is a psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher of the Cala-
tonia method, at Instituto Sedes Sapientiae and teacher of Jungian psych-
ology at UniSão Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil. She founded and has been the
editor of Hermes, a journal dedicated to Jungian and somatic studies,
since 1995. She has a special interest in gnosticism and participates in
seminars on religious studies at Pontifícia Universidade Católica, where
she received her Master’s degree in Jungian Studies.
Dyane N. Sherwood, PhD, is an analyst member and on the teaching faculty
of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She studied neurobiology at