The hidden self: can the Shadow Work Journal help you face your dark side?
Promising step-by-step revelations, the journal has gone viral on TikTok, but some caution it’s not a replacement for mental health care
October 2023
Anthony Stevens obituary
Analyst and psychiatrist who proposed a science of human nature that embraced psychology, anthropology and medicine
September 2023
The sleep secret: how lucid dreams can make us fitter, more creative and less anxious
Jung-haters dismiss his work because they fear what they don’t understand
Brief letters
Is this checkmate for Rishi Sunak?
My late father hated Carl Jung. Should I shun him for ever too?
Zoe Williams
August 2023
Other lives
Coline Covington obituary
Other lives: Psychoanalyst and author whose work explored big themes such as identity and patriotism
May 2023
The Audio Long Read
Are coincidences real? – podcast
The rationalist in me knows that coincidences are inevitable, mundane, meaningless. But I can’t deny there is something strange and magical in them, too.
April 2023
The long read
Are coincidences real?
The long read: The rationalist in me knows that coincidences are inevitable, mundane, meaningless. But I can’t deny there is something strange and magical in them, too
February 2022
Company Chameleon: The Shadow review – Jungian overdrive
Black-clad extras loom and the sound booms as impressive dancers look to illuminate the pyschologist’s theories of humanity’s secret faces
September 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about human consciousness
Authors from Carl Jung to Aldous Huxley and Susan Blackmore explore the deep mysteries of what it means to be a person
August 2019
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: Story's End by Kathleen Raine
From a writer whose mystical bent was out of tune with her times, this late work is candid about ‘life’s long years’
August 2016
Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis by Catrine Clay – review
Emma Jung’s role in the growth of psychoanalysis – and her scandalous life with Carl – is revealed in this absorbing new biography
August 2015
A book that changed me
Misery, failure, death and a slap in the face. Great advice for life from James Hollis
Oliver Burkeman
Don’t interpret What Matters Most as self-help cheesiness. This blunt and refreshing work by a follower of Jung is a radical and humbling way of thinking about psychology
May 2014
Carl Jung review – analytical psychology as a cultural project
From childhood fantasies of a giant phallus to his relationship with Freud, Paul Bishop has written a wonderfully rich biography of Jung. By PD Smith
June 2013
Venice Biennale: how much is that fox in the mini-mart?
Statues in shops, rain made of gold coins, and a trip to a Cardiff S&M parlour … Adrian Searle gives his verdict on the best of the Venice Biennale
February 2012
Reel history
A Dangerous Method whips up a fantasy with a female archetype
