Skin Disease: A Message from the Soul: A Treatise from a Jungian Perspective of Psychosomatic Dermatology

By Anne Maguire

The last fifty years have encompassed unparalleled development in the world of scientific medical research. Yet, the causation of many diseases eludes consciousness. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the sometimes neglected discipline of dermatology, as a scientific basis for causation and treatment is offered to very few diseases of the skin. In fact, the cause is unknown in the vast majority of cases. This work is an exploration of the unconscious psychic background of acute, but mainly chronic, skin diseases. It is a study which includes both the personal unconscious of each individual and the vast archetypal world with its communication by image and symbol, which is named the collective unconscious or objective psyche. Its reality was established 100 years ago by C.G. Jung's early work with the galvanometer and the word association test, through the medium of the skin. He was to describe psyche, including consciousness and the unconscious realm, as the greatest of all cosmic wo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853437484
• ISBN13: 9781853437489
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"