Main description:

- clear and accessible writing style - written for a wide audience (students, training courses, analysts); there's something for everyone here

Contents:

Introduction Prologue: The Descent into the Hell of Self Knowledge: The Shadow in Context 1: The Development of the Shadow in Childhood: Shadow Work (Maia's Story) 2: Gender dysphoria, Individuation and the Shadow 3: Disease as the Shadow of the Body 4: On Ageing: Coming Home 5: The Shadow in Literature: Daphne du Maurier's "The Scapegoat" 6: Whose Shadow is it Anyway? Jung and Opposites 7: The Shadow of Darkness, the Shadow of light: Perspectives on the Shadow through social dreaming 8: The Shadow of Whiteness 9: The Shadow in Politics 10: Shadow and Earth: Eco-Psychology and the Future of the Planet 11: Existential threat and large group anxiety 12: The Impact of AI and IT in the 21st Century 13: Fundamentalism, Terrorism and Mindlessness: The Shadow of Thinking 14: Imago Diaboli: The Devil and its manifestations in C. G. Jung's Black Books and Liber Novus 15: Five Perspectives on Evil: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam 16: Sexual Boundary Violation: Betrayal and the Shadow of Therapy 17: Bringing the Shadow towards Light: Approaches to assimilating the Shadow Appendix: The Shadow