The Far Side of Madness (Jungian Classics Series)

by John Weir Perry

Book Overview

John Weir Perry (1914-1998) first met C. G. Jung in Switzerland as a young medical student, where he was intrigued by Jung's assertion that schizophrenia is a natural healing process. During the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882145118
• ISBN13: 9780882145112
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Spring Publications
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Spooky!

As someone who has passed through a serious "manic" crisis and consider it to be the most important, positive, life-changing event of my life I consider this book to be essential reading for anyone who has been diagnosed as mentally ill (schizophrenia, bi-polar, etc...). John Weir Perry's detailed account of the phases of "madness" one goes through on the way to healing mirrored my own in surprising detail. But perhaps most importantly, his methodology for treating individuals during their crisis is exactly the kind of treatment I would have hoped for, but never recieved. My own ability to "treat" myself without a psychiatrist probably saved my life, however, I know there are millions of people out there suffering needlessly due to the ignorance of the psychiatric profession, which Perry so eloquently describes.

temenos

The actual author of this text is John Weir Perry. John Beebe wrote the introduction. Anyway, this book is an excellent expose on the language of the psyche and how it produces symbolic images that are part of the healing process. Symbolic and abstract forms do not relate well to concrete thinkers, but the psyche keeps producing these images anyway. For those who who can and prefer to work with the symbolic life, there might be more here in this book than someone else's madness. This book is a good illustration of the symbolic healing process.