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Publisher Marketing: In "The Dance of Intimacy," Dr. Harriet Lerner outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged -- too much distance, too much intensity or too much pain -- she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness with others. Combining clear advice with vivid case examples, Dr. Lerner offers us the most solid, helpful book on intimate relationships that both women and men may ever encounter.

Contributor Bio: Harriet Lerner:
Lerner is an internationally acclaimed expert on the psychology of women and family relationships. She is a staff psychologist and psychotherapist at the Menninger Clinic and a distinguished lecturer, consultant, and workshop leader.

Book Annotation: This documentary-cartoon book takes us to late 19th century Vienna where Freud grew up. Freud for Beginners is an introduction to the life and thought of a man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionized our attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex, and culture.

Publisher Marketing: This documentary cartoon-book takes us to late 19th century Vienna, where Freud grew up. An introduction to the life and thought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionized our attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex and culture.

Contributor Bio: Oscar Zarate:
Zarate is an illustrator.

Book Annotation: An enchanting look at childhood spiritual experiences recalled by adults--and their significance for everyone. Child psychologist Hoffman (author of The Right to Be Human) presents over 150 accounts of the childhood spiritual experiences adults remember and shows their significance for understanding ourselves as well as our children.

Contributor Bio: Edward Hoffman:
Hoffman is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York City. He has received degrees from Cornell University and the University of Michigan. He lectures widely on family and workplace issues.

Jacket Description/Back: More than ever, the time is ripe for June Singer's penetrating commentary on William Blake's work, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. For even the most devout literary scholars and art historians, much of Blake's mystical visions and writings are perplexing. With his pen and brush, he gave birth to mythological figures and fantastic metaphors. Singer shows us that Blake was actually tapping into the collective unconscious and giving form and voice to primordial psychological energies, or archetypes, that he experienced in his inner and outer world. Blake's writing and art was his personal dialogue between God and his own inner self -- a reconciliation of duality -- in which we can find clues to contemporary issues.

In the 18th century, Blake was a pioneer in finding, nurturing, and celebrating his personal connection with the divine, a search that still appeals to people who are coming to terms with the contemporary struggle between science and spirituality -- the conflict between reason and imagination. With clarity and wisdom, Singer examines the images and words in each plate of Blake's work, applying in her analysis the concepts that C. G. Jung advanced in his psychological theories. There is no more perfect lens with which to look at Blake's work than that of Jung's concepts of the archetypes, the process of individuation, and the mysterium coniunctionis, in which consciousness and the unconscious are united.

This edition includes a new preface by Jung Singer and a reproduction of 24 pages from Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Publisher Marketing: In this thoughtful discussion of Blake's well-known Marriage of Heaven and Hell, June Singer, a well-known Jungian analyst, shows us that Blake was actually tapping into the collective unconscious and giving form and voice to the primordial psychological energies that he experienced in his inner and outer worlds.

Contributor Bio: June Singer:
Singer, a Zurich-trained Jungian psychoanalyst, member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and founding member of the Chicago Institute. She maintains a private practice in Jungian analysis and transpersonal psychotherapy.

M Esther Harding:
Harding was a leading Jungian analyst for many years and a founder of the Analytical Psychology Club of New York.

Publisher Marketing: Through Apollo's gift of prophecy Cassandra foretold the future. Enraged by her rejection of him, Apollo vowed no one would ever believe her. This can be the tragedy of intuitive, medial women, but this author shows how prophetic sensibilities can become the creative wellspring of a proud new life. Dream interpretation and case studies.

Publisher Marketing: C.G. Jung originated the realization that not only did the analyst need to be analyzed first, but that the therapeutic process ultimately involves the mutual transformation of both participants.