Jungian analyst, Joan Chodorow brings together a key selection of Jung's writings on active imagination. In her introduction she clearly explains Jung's methods of achieving self-knowledge and individuation.

Joan Chodorow is an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, an analyst in private practice and a registered dance therapist.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Confrontation with the unconscious; 2 The transcendent function; 3 'The technique of differentiation between the ego and the figures of the unconscious'; 4 Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower; 5 The aims of psychotherapy; 6 A study in the process of individuation; 7 The Tavistock lectures; 8 The psychological aspects of the Kore; 9 On the nature of the psyche; 10 Three letters to Mr O. (1947); 11 Mysterium Coniunctionis; 12 Foreword to van Helsdingen: Beelden uit het Onbewuste; Afterword: Post-Jungian contributions; Bibliography180List of fantasies and visions; Subject index; Name index