Carl Gustav Jung merged Eastern mysticism with Western
psychology, brought scientific respectability to religion, laid
the foundation for ‘the New Age,’ and is second only to Freud in
influence and importance in the world of psychoanalysis. Many
consider him a genius, but may Scholar and clinical psychologist
Jon Platania, PhD, presents Jung as a somewhat opportunistic and
dissociated character whose most famous historical events were
his break with Freud and his questionable sojourn with the
psychological elite of the German Third Reich. On the other side
of Jung's complex genius, there is a deeply spiritual man who
laid the groundwork for a more optimistic approach to our modern
understanding of the human psyche in both theology and
psychology. He is remembered by many as the Swiss Doctor of the
Soul. Dr. Platania then takes us on a tour of the work that made
Jung one of the pillars of modern psychology. And what a body of
work it is. Jung’s open-mindedness was astonishing. Wherever he
went—Calcutta, Egypt,