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Turbulent Times, Creative Minds - A review by Ann Casement

Turbulent Times, Creative Minds Edited: Erel Shalit and Murray Stein This reviewer of  Turbulent Times, Creative Minds  was introduced to the work of Erich Neumann decades ago by his close friend, Gerhard Adler, who thought highly of him.  In complete contrast, Michael Fordham was critical of Neumann’s thinking on the child and told this reviewer he doubted that Neumann had ever encountered an  actual  child – thereby enacting an actual experience of the opposites. In addition, the profound Jung thinker, Wolfgang Giegerich, has also written critically on Neumann.  In order to experience Neumann’s thinking at first-hand, this reviewer participated in the 2015 conference held at Kibbutz Shefayim to mark the publication of the correspondence between Jung and Neumann edited by Martin Liebscher. The current skillfully edited book arising from that conference is an  homage  to the exceptional personal and professional relationship betw...