The Making of an Analyst: A Memoir

by Michael Fordham

Immersed in Jungian thinking throughout his life, Fordham has always been a controversial as well as a key figure. He writes candidly about his after the Second World War, against the tendency to religiosity and cult formation within the Jungian fold and outside it. There are portraits of Jung himself and a frank assessment of Jung's response to Nazism, of the Jungian communities in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and of the evolution of British psychotherapy and child guidance.

151 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Michael Fordham was an English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. His clinical and theoretical collaboration with psychoanalysts of the object relations school led him to make significant theoretical contributions to what has become known as 'The London School' of analytical psychology.