Hiding in plain sight: Jung,astrology, and the psychology of the unconscious

Astrology was a lifelong interest for C.G. Jung and an important aid in his formulation of psyche and psychic process. Archetypally configured, astrology provided Jung an objective means to a fuller understanding of the analysand's true nature and unique individuation journey. Jung credits astrology with helping to unlock the mystery of alchemy and in so doing providing the symbol language necessary for deciphering the historically remote cosmology of Gnosticism. Astrology also aided Jung's work on synchronicity. Despite astrology's worth to Jung's development of analytical psychology, its fundamental role in guiding his discoveries is all but absent from historical notice. The astrological natal chart seems rarely used clinically, and many clinicians seem unaware of its value as a dynamic diagram of the personality and the potentialities within which nature and nurture foster and/or discourage for individual growth and development over the lifespan. This paper charts Jung's interest in astrology and suggests why his great regard for it and other paranormal or occult practices remains largely neglected and unknown.     

Paradoxical affinities: otherness and ambivalence as creative pathways

Referring to her own background as the child of Jewish refugees forced to leave their countries of origin before the second World War, the author describes how her attitude towards Jung and his ideas has evolved. The role of paradoxical affinities that have affected the author's life and identity as a Jungian analyst are considered, alongside the impact of experiences of otherness whilst supervising and teaching abroad, particularly in Eastern Europe.     

Willem A. Visser ‘t Hooft: The Future of Peace

This is an edited translation of an address given on 20 July 2017, the 73rd anniversary of the bomb plot against Adolf Hitler, at the Adam von Trott Foundation in Imshausen, Germany. It recalls the contacts of Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, the first general secretary of the World Council of Churches, with the German resistance during the Second World War, discusses the relevance of their vision of the post‐war future to contemporary politics, and highlights the significance of Visser 't Hooft for the ecumenical movement.     

键盘时间精度的一个图示法研究

以4个实验,用图示法对键盘的时间精度作了比较分析。实验1表明PES心理实验系统反应键和键盘都有良好的时间精度。实验2表明键盘的时间精度具有很大的个体差异,范围从1-2毫秒到40多毫秒,其中PS2的键盘普遍不理想。实验3表明键盘的时间精度不受转接器和计算机主频的影响。实验4使用了3名操作者,证实了这种方法的效果基本不受操作者个体差异的影响。研究演示了图示法在计算机控制的心理学实验中确定仪器的时间精度的作用,提示了实验中需要针对具体的实验条件判断时间精度是否符合实验要求,来确定是否选用特殊的反应键或者选择何种键盘作为反应的方式。     

Worship as a Revelation. The Past,Present and Future of Catholic Liturgy

Unitatis Redintegratio (UR), the Decree on Ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council, was both the outcome and instrument of ecumenical engagement between Anglicans and Roman Catholics, and continues to have a formative influence on their dialogue. In the lead-up to the Council, personal contacts between Church of England leaders and the nascent Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity played a significant part in a change of atmosphere towards other Christian traditions at the Vatican. UR notes the ‘special place’ which the Anglican Communion holds in the communion of churches: the 1966 meeting in Rome between Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI would lead to The Malta Report (1968) and the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC). The ‘Principles of Dialogue’ set out in UR – avoiding polemical language; integrating spiritual and academic learning; expounding positions clearly, and committed openness – are affirmed in the light of the experience of ARCIC. The Agreed Statements of ARCIC I and II, focused around the motif of koinonia, are assessed in view of the topics for dialogue listed in UR: Christology; Ecclesiology (including the Blessed Virgin Mary); Sacred Scripture; Life in Christ in communion; Teaching on sacraments and ministry; and Christian personal, family, liturgical and social life. The significance of eschatology in relation to unity in Christ is highlighted, both with reference to Anglican difficulties about gender relations and authority, and to the three-fold use of ‘complete’ in UR. What might it mean for ecumenical dialogue, and ecclesial relationships, to work from the future backwards rather than just from the past forwards – i.e. in terms of faith rather than sight?     

Internetchatgruppen in Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik

Zusammenfassung  In Zusammenarbeit mit der Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) und der Panorama-Fachklinik für Psychosomatik, Psychotherapeutische Medizin und Naturheilverfahren Scheidegg/Allgäu hat die Forschungsstelle für Psychotherapie das Projekt Internetbrücke initiiert. Die Patienten erhielten im Anschluss an ihre stationäre Behandlung das Angebot, für 12–15 Wochen an einer Gruppe teilzunehmen, die sich in einem speziell eingerichteten Chatraum wöchentlich traf. Das Projekt hatte die Ziele: (a) eine geeignete Internetumgebung für eine vertrauliche Kommunikation aufzubauen und deren Praktikabilität zu testen sowie (b) die Akzeptanz durch die Patienten und die Wirksamkeit zu evaluieren. Zur Evaluation wurde eine prospektive kontrollierte Studie durchgeführt. Chatteilnehmer (n=114) wurden mit einer gematchten Vergleichsgruppe (n=114) hinsichtlich ihres Gesundheitszustands ein halbes Jahr nach der Klinikentlassung verglichen. Die Technik erwies sich als robust und nutzerfreundlich. Das Angebot wurde sehr positiv von den Patienten aufgenommen; dies drückte sich u. a. in der niedrigen Abbruchrate (9,4%) und der hohen Akzeptanz (83,7% der Chatteilnehmer hielten eine Internetbrücke für sinnvoll) aus. Die Chatteilnehmer konnten die während der stationären Behandlung erreichten positiven Entwicklungen – gemessen mit dem globalen Kriterium der Stuttgart-Heidelberger Qualitätssicherung – besser erhalten als die Vergleichsgruppe (p<0,05). Es zeigten sich Vorteile für die Chatteilnehmer im Hinblick auf das psychische Befinden, während die Unterschiede im körperlichen Befinden eher gering waren. Die Konsequenzen für die psychosoziale Versorgung werden diskutiert.

Opportunities of online analysis1

The question of whether tele-analysis is an acceptable way of conducting analysis has been discussed since it has become available. Merchant (2016) and others concluded that ‘the essentials of a genuine analytic process are not necessarily precluded’ (p. 1). In this paper, the author goes a step further and examines potential advantages of tele-analysis. There may be benefits for patients with a history of physical or sexual abuse who value the distance. The potential for a ‘safe place’ for work with erotic transference is also examined. In a further section the author is interested in allowing the analyst the freedom to practise in an authentic way, congruent with their personality. Also explored is the concept of the interactive field including the technological medium, which is subject to synchronistic events. Finally, the author gives examples of a deep connection between patient and analyst which came about despite the physical distance.     

Some Questions Raised by the Practice of Online Analysis1

In this paper the author explores some of the issues raised by the practice of online analysis. In particular, he emphasizes the difference between the setting and the frame and proposes a theoretical approach of the latter as emerging within the transferential dynamic.     

Dissociations in aphasia: A case report

This paper is a case study of an aphasic patient who displays two interesting characteristics, namely, (1) a dissociation between his oral and written disorders (i.e., oral Wernicke vs. written Broca); (2) an agraphia-alexia syndrome in which the picturability of the entities referred to by words plays an important role. Some of the characteristics shown by this patient have been well described concerning reading but never concerning writing. This second aspect is particularly emphasized.     

Effects of a delay-reinforcement procedure on performance under IRT>t schedules

Water-deprived rats were studied under a compound schedule that prescribed that responses terminating interresponse times (IRTs) greater than a fixed value t₁ (IRT > t₁ component schedule) initiated a delay of reinforcement interval t₂, at the end of which water was presented if the subject did not respond ( > t₂ component schedule). If the subject responded before the t₂ interval elapsed, the IRT > t₁ component schedule was re-initiated and water was not presented. The IRT > t₁ and > t₂ component schedules were not differentially correlated with distinctive stimuli. Rate of responding during the IRT > t₁ component decreased as a function of the value of t₂. The magnitude of the decreases in response rate appeared to be proportional to the subject's rate under the IRT > t schedule with no delay of reinforcement (t₂ = 0 sec). The effects were independent of the parameter value of the IRT > t₁ component schedule and of the rate of reinforcement. The results suggested that “efficiency” of performance under IRT > t schedules can be increased by appropriately arranging brief delays of reinforcement.