The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl I. After a fortunate but, to me, very arduous voyage, we finally reached port. As soon as the boat set me on land, I loaded my little belongings on my back, and, pushing my way through the swarming crowd, I walked into the nearest, humblest house fronted with a … Read more
Thank God, I am Jung, and not a Jungian! Forty published life histories of C. G. Jung are grouped into eight categories: autobiography, hagiographies, pathographies, professional biographies, intellectual biographies, illustrated biographies, religious biographies, and joint Jung/Freud biographies. Each work is briefly reviewed in terms of its scope, its main contributions to the biographical literature on … Read more
Albert Kreinheder, Body and Soul The Other Side of Illness And After That the Dark Then up ahead among the things to come is death. D.E.A.T.H. One of the serious conditions that older people often have is death anxiety. This is a real killer, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Paradoxically those who want to live well have … Read more
The Psychologist as Biographer Homo sapiens is the biographical animal. Humans differ from other creatures not only in anticipating their group and individual future but in reviewing and recounting their personal past—and in being fascinated by the personal pasts of other humans. Even in cultures where formal biography has remained undeveloped, details of individual life … Read more