​The answer to Sonu Shamdasani's question is: Jungians!

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Jung and the other early analysts encouraged their patients to practice active imagination, and many painted their visions and dreams. Jung had an easel in his study!

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Yet with the Jungian diaspora, Jungians were influenced by the dominant culture of psychoanalysis, which has privileged a focus on transference and verbal interpretation. This approach began to overshadow Jung's essential contribution to method.

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The publication of Jung's Red Book has reminded us of the power of visions, dreams, and creative expression and is beginning to change what is taught in Analytical Training Programs.

 

The body unconscious, the repository of unprocessed affects, naturally expresses itself through image and movement, not through words. Jungian analysis includes the expression of dreams and images from the imagination using paints, sandplay, plastic materials, and authentic movement. Then come words.

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Our books specialize in works that include images, many in color, as well as words. They are more expensive to prepare and produce, and commercial publishers are either reluctant to publish them or must charge very high prices. This press is making a small contribution to filling the gap.

 

Please take a moment to consider our books, which I hope you will want to keep, to look at and to read again.

 

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