Current Issue
Letter from the Editor
Welcome to the second and last issue of the JJTP for 2007. As was done with the previous issue, hard copies are being sent to over 1200 analysts and trainees in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The response to having the journal mailed free of charge has been overwhelmingly positive, and we hope to be able to continue this service to the entire North American Jungian community. We wish to thank the officers of CNASJA for making this possible. In particular, we are grateful to Toni d’Anca, who administers the organization’s mailing list.
Also as with the previous issue, notices are going out to all analyst members of the IAAP every time a new issue is being listed on our website. This should allow the journal to continue to be truly international. We wish to thank the Executive Committee of the IAAP and Donald Williams, the IAAP webmaster,
for making this possible.
The current issue consists of three contributions. The first, by Richard Kradin from the Boston Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, is a reexamination of the transference from a Jungian and relational perspective, with particular emphasis on attention deficits. Dr. Kradin’s paper is a much welcomed examination of the role self-disclosures may play in dealing with certain analytic impasses.
The second contribution, by Gary Trosclair of the Jung Institute of New York, explores the archetypal need to maintain autonomy, an often-neglected aspect of analytic work. According the author, autonomy is a primary need and serves to ensure the unique development of the individual. However, the same striving may also prohibit the very growth the person seeks and may lead to dangerous conditions such as anorexia and obesity. Thus autonomy may supersede other archetypal intentions—most especially within the analysis itself.
The third contribution, by Altan Loker of Istanbul, examines Jung’s concept of compensation in relationship to the meaning of dreams. How consistent is Jung’s use of this tool and how does the understanding of unconscious compensation square with a iv contemporary and cognitive point of view? The article raises many important questions about the approach to dreams, and the JJTP asked two senior Jungian analysts, John Beebe of San Francisco and Lionel Corbett of Pacifica Institute, to respond to Mr. Loker’s critique. Together these three contributions offer a rich dialogue about contemporary approaches to Jungian dream interpretation.
The journal now has a new design. By listing the contents on the back cover, we are able to reproduce the alchemical illustrations in greater detail. We are also able to make the introductory pages more compact, thereby having more space for actual reading while keeping the cost down. I hope that you find the new look pleasing.
We always welcome submissions of papers with a clinical relevance addressing concerns in the Jungian community. All submissions are reviewed by three expert readers, without revealing the name of the author. This is our way of insuring the quality of the contributions, without favoring the author’s background, theoretical bent, or geographic location. A vibrant and lively exchange of insights and ideas is what we hope and strive for in each issue of the JJTP.
Your comments are most welcome and should be addressed to Soren.Ekstrom@gmail.com. If I find them of interest to the entire readership, I may contact you for permission to publish.
Soren Ekstrom, Ph.D.
Editor
