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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This book is another stepping stone for English-speaking readers toward greater familiarity with the thought of Verena Kast. Until now we have become acquainted with Kast as a psychologist of the mourning process (1988) a mythographer of relationship (1986) a theorist and practi- tioner of depth crisis intervention (1990) a Dionysian philosopher of joy (1991) a Sisyphusian mid-life counselor (1991) an educator who is able and willing to readably summarize the state of the art of contemporary Jungian psy- chotherapy (1992) and an initiator into the world of Active Imagination (1993). Recently a publication appeared together with the authors Ingrid Riedel and Mario Jacoby in which we were offered a sample of Kast as an interpreter of folktales (1992). The present volume is the first to appear in English that is devoted exclusively to her reflections on folk- tales. Fromm International will bring us in time all six of Kast’s books on folktales. If her publishing history in Ger- man is any indication we may predict that Verena Kast’s thought will soon become well known to her English-speak- ing audience as well. Kast’s popularity has been held against her. How can any- thing be profound that is popular? And yet Jungian psychol- ogy itself provides the answer to this apparent riddle: If archetypal images express dilemmas that are common to most if not all of humanity and if folktales are an expressive medium through which these images are entertainingly (LL)