Medicine, Psychology and Sociology
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The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature
There are different wats of looking at the achievements of outstanding personalities. Each can be studied in the light of his individual development, of the historical influences that played upon him, or of the more intangible collective influences expressed by the word Zeitgeist. Jung’s attention was directed mainly to the great cultural movements- alchemy in…
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Sacred House
Weaving together profound stories, original source materials and lyrical texts, this extraordinary book travels a spiralling route around the hearth fire of a sacred ceremonial house, gathering up the words that are fed into the ancient flames. Drawing on over 30 years of being absorbed in women’s work, and decades spent as a workshop creator,…
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Psychology and Religion: West and East
Religion is a major theme- it could almost be said to be the predominant theme- throughout Jung’s writings, and many of the works included in the present volume are among his most important. Part One of the book is on western religion, and opens with a chapter entitled Psychology and Religion which Jung first presented…
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Lectures on the Blood
It would be inaccurate to say, that the reign of the humoral pathology is restored; but the well-read and observing physician may safely allege, that it is impossible for us to take cognisance of the reciprocal action of the organs, in the play of their functions, on each other, or of the operation of either…
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Unwell Women
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women’s bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical orthodoxy. Medicine’s history has always been, and is still…
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Real-Time Medical Image Processing
The recent technical revolution in diagnostic medicine has resulted in an abundance of imaging instruments and methods having great value for research and clinical medicine. However, there exists a scarcity of reference volumes and textbooks on the subject for the initiate scientist and engineer.
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Mysterium Coniunctionis
Mysterium Coniunctionis was first published in the Collected Works of C G Jung in 1963. For this second edition of the work, numerous corrections and revisions have been made in cross-references to other volumes of the Collected Works now available, and likewise in the Bibliography. Mysterium Coniunctionis was Jung’s last work of book length and…
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I Was Born A Slave
Over 120 autobiographies of ex-slaves were published as books or pamphlets between the mid-eighteenth and early twentieth centuries; all subsequent African American literature is descended from these seminal works. I Was Born A Slave collects the twenty most significant slave narratives and arranges them chronologically in two volumes to form a mini library of essential…
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Chasing the Scream
What if everything we’ve been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to discover…