Animal guides in life, myth and dreams : an analyst's notebook

by Neil Russack

Paperback, 2002

Publication

Imprint: Toronto : Inner City Books, c2002. Series: Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts (97). Responsibility: Neil Russack with a foreword by Joseph L. Henderson. OCLC Number: 50693447. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, index.

Call number

Psy-J / Russa

Barcode

BK-08369

ISBN

9780919123984

Collections

Your library, Adult Materials, Philosophy and Science

CSS Library Notes

Description: Russack’s moving narrative of his and others’ experience of animals—dogs, waterbirds, deer, whales, geese, frogs, elephants, dolphins, horses, boar, octopuses, unicorns and many more—teases out their psychological significance through the deft use of mythology, poetry, dreams and case material. -- from publisher

Table of Contents:
Isolation & Alienation
Animal Healing (Soul, Energy, Guardian, Body & Guide)
Through the Gate of the Snake
Initiation by Water (Octopus & Spiral * Waterbird *Geese * Duck, Goose & Heron * Frog * Dolphins * Whales
Initiation by Earth (Elephants * Deer & Elk * Boar * Horses)
Initiation by Fire (Imagination and Transcendence * Fire Dragon & Unicorn * Death Dragon * The Phoenix & the 1995 Pt. Reyes Fire * Guerranero, Dream Animal * Osprey * Owl
Returning Home (Town, Nature, the Human World * Animals in My Office)

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Physical description

222 p.; 22 cm

Description

This is title no. 97 in the series Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts. Neil Russack has given us a beautiful and moving narrative of his experience with animals, teasing out their psychological meaning through the use of mythology, poetry, dreams, and case material.Above all Dr. Russack honors the animals in their own life, so that the reader gets the feeling of their significance not only to him and his patients, but also as natural science for all. 27 illustrations.