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The article highlights the conference "Succeeding Laius: Intergenerational Difficulties in Psychotherapy Organizations," which was held in London, England by the Confederation for Analytical Psychology on March 10, 2007. The conference is part an attempt by the Confederation to reflect on turbulence in the organization associated with a transition in leadership from a founder member to a second generation.

The article evaluates the paper "The Psychology of Abortive Mechanism," by Elizabeth Gee published in the journal "Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists." The author says that Gee unfolds her thinking on abortive processes in analysis. Written in a voice and style consonant with a wider psychotherapeutic narrative, the core of the paper contains case material hauntingly illustrative of barely viable analysis and their struggle both for-and against-relationship. She proposes a link between clinical abortions and impasse in her work with four female patients. Increasingly "intrigued" by what these patients share in common-all attended frequently over many years, but seemed to make no psychological progress the author discovers each has a history of undisclosed abortions.

This article presents information of various books and journals related to psychology. The paper "Notes on the psychotherapy of infantile autism" by Micheal Fordham is an account of his work and research with autism in children. "Psicologia della lettura" by Mario Trevi is a thought-provoking paper, which presents some intriguing comparisons between reading and play. The paper "Working with a family in a Child Guidance setting" by P. Parsloe and D. Howell presents therapeutic work of psychiatrist and psychiatric social worker on psychotherapy of closely interdependent immature people.

The article comments on the paper entitled "The Individual and the Influence of Social Settings: A Psychoanalyitc Perspective on the Interaction of the Individual and Society," by R. D. Hinshelwood. The paper describes a patient's process of taking in a hated object which dominate her internal world in a hostile way and reflects on social psychology.

This paper elucidates and discusses Jung's conceptions of the relation between psychology, psychotherapy and religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I describe my work with a suicidal patient. The patient was a woman who failed to realize her creative potential in a much wished for and unattainable profession of teacher and transferred all her energy and desire for leadership into her family life. The slogan of her life was the pathetic phrase: 'Everything or nothing!' Her views on life differed from those of her husband who, at the age of 48, started a love affair with a 25-year-old woman. In relation to this, the patient became depressed and attempted suicide twice (by poisoning) in two years. From the Toxicology Department she was referred to the Psychiatric Department where she was treated as an out-patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I discuss a patient whose shadow became his rival, or as Jung put it, 'The shadow is lived'. I describe the beginning of a process of the assimilation of shadow contents, whereby the rupture between ego and shadow can no longer be maintained. I also discuss how it is primarily through the mutual experience and analysis of archetypal images that the unconscious contents become more integrated. In my clinical illustrations I also explore the relationship between my patient's fight with his shadow and his experiences of childhood shame. I consider how fear expressed through a panic attack may open a royal door to the unconscious, and the way in which its mediation through empathy and analysis can lead to unconscious infantile contents becoming more accessible. In addition, I show how, once some of the fear had subsided, it became possible for play to enter into the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article comments on the paper "The Emperor's Clothes: Some Serious Problems in Psychoanalytic Training," by Patrick Casement. It presents a criticism on the psychoanalytic training practices and a vision of a truly aware and competent psychoanalyst. It also identifies ways in which the institutional processes can be handled in the interest of the students.

The article comments on the paper "For Whom the Bell Tolls: Context, Complexity, and Compassion in Psychoanalysis," by Donna M. Orange. It attempts to reposition therapeutic attitude and technique through the lens of complexity theory. The theory includes a multitude of contexts within a hologram that includes the therapist and patient.

Discusses the article "The autonomous psyche. A communication to Goodheart from the bi-personal field of Paul Kugler and James Hillman," by J. Hillman. Kugler's reaction to Goodheart's paper "C.G. Jung's first patient"; Kugler's response to Hillman's intense reaction and indignation.