Collected Writings of Giles Clark

This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947-2019), whose original clinical theory constitutes a major contribution to the areas of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy.

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Judith Pickering is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Jungian analyst and couple and family therapist in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways Through Psychological Obstacles to Love (Routledge, 2008); The Search for Meaning in Psychotherapy: Spiritual Practice, the Apophatic Way and Bion (Routledge, 2019).

Geoffrey Samuel is a retired social, cultural and medical anthropologist. His books include Mind, Body and Culture (1990), Civilized Shamans (1993) and The Origins of Yoga and Tantra (2008). He is interested in mind-body interaction and healing in anthropological theory, in Buddhist practice and in dialogue between traditions of knowledge.

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Introduction to Collected Writings of Giles Clark 1. A process of transformation: Spiritual puer, instinctual shadow and instinctual spirit 2. A black hole in psyche 3. Animation through the analytical relationship: The embodiment of self in the transference and countertransference 4. How much Jungian theory is there in my practice? 5. The animating body: Psychoid substance as a mutual experience of psychosomatic disorder 6. Mind-body intimacies and pains 7. A Spinozan lens onto the confusions of borderline relations 8. A Jungian inheritance of lack and loss: Reflections on my Jungian ancestry 9. The active use of the analyst's bodymind: as it is informed by psychic disturbances 10. Symbolising and not-symbolising 11. Romantic catastrophes and other vital realities 12. Embodied countertransference and recycling the mad matter of symbolic equivalence 13. Unconscious structures and defences 14. On psychosis 15. Herder's force: pluralism, expressivism, mind-body relations and empathy 16. Psychoid relations in the transferential/countertransferential field of personality disorders 17. Towards a psychoanalytic Spinoza: Reflections on his philosophy and the psychotherapeutic mind 18. Why (and how) psychoid relations matter 19. The matter of an oddly embodied mind: My spiritual travels with a faithful but savage 'pet dog' 20. Last jottings Bibliography of works by Giles Clark