Reviews for The Adaptive Brain, Volume Set (Advances in Psychology Ser) (v. 1)

The average rating for The Adaptive Brain, Volume Set (Advances in Psychology Ser) (v. 1) based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-27 00:00:00 Christopher Sapaula This is one of the best, if not the best, introduction to the work of Carl Gustav Jung. There are others. Man & His Symbols, a coffee table book, is intended as an introduction, but Analytical Psychology: Its Theory & Practice is far more satisfying for someone approaching Jung seriously, which is to say critically. Analytical Psychology was the name Jung wanted to give his school of thought. But while Freud was successful in establishing psychoanalysis as something bigger than Freudianism, Jung had no such luck. Nor did he deserve it. Psychoanalysis, for all its shortcomings, stuck to at least a claim to adhere to scientific method and has, in fact, adapted itself to modern psychiatry while Jungian psychology is mostly Jung, his closest associates and, well, Jungians. The lectures Jung delivered at the Tavistock Clinic in London (9/30-10/4/35), however, are Jung at his best. Here his audience consisted of psychiatrists and medical doctors schooled in the sciences--a serious, critical audience. Consequently, Jung emphasizes more than is his wont the evidential bases and therapeutic efficacies of his work. Personally, it was this book and a systematic reading of Jung in the general chronological order of his the Bollingen Foundation's Collected Works which got me hooked--that and the fact that the later works were simply over my head and, so, challenging in prospect. Those early works were, of course, those he wrote as a doctoral candidate and as a young psychiatrist in residency, works intended for vetted publication and critical review.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-06-22 00:00:00 Zane Robb "You can speculate anything about an isolated dream; but if you compare a series of, say, twenty or a hundred dreams, then you can see interesting things. You see the process that is going on in the unconscious from night to night, and the continuity of the unconscious psyche extending through day and night. Presumably we are dreaming all the time, although we are not aware of it by day  because consciousness is much too clear. But at night, when there is that  abaissement du niveau mental, the dreams can break through and become visible." I read this one as an introduction to his works which was a series of five lectures he gave at the Institute of Medical Psychology (Tavistock Clinic), London in 1935, and also goes by the name Tavistock Lectures. With the set of lectures, Jung has tried his best to cover the basic overview of his works starting with the structure of the conscious and the unconscious mind, methods used in the investigation of contents originating in the unconscious psychic processes and methods involved i.e. the word-association method, dream-analysis, the method of active imagination followed by brief notions on archetypes and some mythological references and eventually some specific debriefing of the phenomenon of transference during the course of dream analysis. Jung's witticisms and clarity of thought can be heavily found in these lecture transcriptions and is something personally hard to digest and take it for an individual in an intellectual basis. This is a good introductory book in parallel with Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961) for the proper and further exploration of Jungian Psychology.