Routledge The Therapeutic Relationship in Analytical Psychology: Theory and Practice

In The Therapeutic Relationship in Analytical Psychology: Theory and Practice Claus Braun presents a thorough exploration of the importance of the therapeutic relationship and explains how to encourage and develop it. Drawing on Braun’s decades of clinical experience, the book clearly demonstrates the significance of establishing an intensive and living connection between client and analyst. The book examines the crucial steps of the psychotherapeutic process, illustrated with a detailed case study that presents the personal development of an analysand through a series of dreams and drawings. Braun connects key concepts in analytical psychology, such as complexes, symbols, archetypes and amplification, with conscious and unconscious processes and the development of the therapeutic relationship during the analytic process. The book also examines why C. G. Jung put such a special emphasis on the therapeutic relationship and explores the ethical demands and social responsibilities of the analyst. Comprehensive and insightful, it skillfully makes the connection between Jung’s analytical psychology and practical psychotherapeutic work. The Therapeutic Relationship in Analytical Psychology will be an essential text for Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training and a key reference for academics and students of analytical psychology, psychotherapy and Jungian studies. Review ‘Claus Braun has written a comprehensive, careful and very important book on the therapeutic relationship as understood within Analytical Psychology. It is an excellent introduction to this topic. I highly recommend it for training in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy’ - Marianne Müller, past IAAP President, Zurich, Switzerland ‚Beautifully organised, clear, and yet deeply reflective, Claus Braun’s book will delight Jungian clinicians and candidates. In addition, it will also join the growing body of ‘crossover’ works that take the post-Jungian clinical message to non-Jungian readers who may not have kept up with developments in analytical psychology. I wholeheartedly welcome the fact that a volume already acclaimed in the German-speaking world is now available to an Anglophone audience.’ - Professor Andrew Samuels, author of Jung and the Post-Jungians ‘Years ago, when I was still a training candidate, I always wished for such a book, one in which form, theory and practice were vividly woven into one another, from where a deeper understanding of what was special, specifically Jungian, in our work could be gained. By choosing this title, Braun signals his position and his intentions: Braun thinks from the point of view of relationships, and thus the reader feels equally invited to participate in dialogue in current analytic discourses both from the German and Anglo-American linguistic areas and in the extensive history of treatment presented by Braun with cautious systematics. Braun's intention is to make visible the viability and topicality of Jungian basic concepts in a theoretical discourse. In the prism of the central concept of relationship broken, essential Jung's concepts such as complex, shadow, dream, archetype, symbol, alchemy, amplification, ego and self, transformation, individuation, transmission and countertransference gain a depth of focus that make Braun's approach to representation convincing: in the light of relationship, the terms gain dynamics, they become readable as process figures linked or connectable with each other. The last third of the book is a case history presented in detail - from the first encounter to farewell. His closing words are a gently but clearly formulated ethical appeal to us and our analysands regarding our relationship to a fragile world. Thus, the book not only offers training candidates valuable support in their development process for our demanding profession, but also gives colleagues the opportunity to deepen their self-reflection.’ - Dr. Angelica