‘THE SELF IN PSYCHOTIC John Weir Perry C.G. Jung stated 2s psychiatrist leaning from schizophrenic patients. Among the Jungian choo}, ‘ony John Weir Percy has continued this line of Jung’s work with such depth of understanding, beaut: THE SELF IN PSYCHOTIC PROCESS JOHN WEIR PERRY Foreword by C.G. Jung sant him national and international renown, The case of the young housewife diagnosed catatonic schizophrenic demonstrates the intespenetration Of collective symbols and individual processes as they comet light in "breakclown” (Part One), an extends knowledge of the psyche by elucidating symbols ofthe Self(Pat Two), Thissecond edition includes new preface by Dr. Perry, together with the original Foreword by C.G, Jung, scholarly ap paras, illustrations, and index an 4 > % 6 & 5 Fo g 6 a Q g. A ai q o Dn Dn a a < SBN 0-88210-S07-5oe! JOHN WEIR PERRY REVIEW COPY = ooiear IN PSYCHOTIC PROCESS Foreword by C.G.Jung SPRING PUBLICATIONS, INC. DALLAS, TEXASJungian Claes Serie 10 1 1953 by the Reef the Unnersy of Cao ‘Ala ace Thi reve eons publi 1987 by Spring Pubic 22206, Dalia, Texan 7522, from he na pomp bythe Shey afl em eh Pe ‘Cover dst and production by Maribeth Lipscomb an Pain Mora Inertial dsb Spin Pst ‘Foot bon Shae 1 ‘Oharan, Nishio Kus Kyoto, 10-1, Japan "lemet Bock Ld LongesdShttesbry, Dat SPY SPL; Enlad, Libary of Conress Calon Pblton Data ey, Jon Wei These in peor procs, (Gian dass sees 510) Repro Orginay phe: Bercy Universo Cora Prey 1953 isegapy: lated le I Schtophres. 2 Pye 2 Sa 4 Solan (Pycsi) Fe Resiabese 1987 616sve2 —n6-20882 ISHN 0-40214-509-6 So FOREWORD ‘As T sudied Dr. Perry's manuscript, T could not help recalling the ti when T was a young alienist searching waaly for a point of view which ‘would enable me to understand the workings of the diseased mind. Merely clinical bservatione—and the subsequent post mortem where one used to ‘tare at bean, which aught to have been palpably wrong yet showed no sgn of abnormality—were not particularly enlightening “Mental diseases are diseases ofthe brain” was the axfoma, and told one just nothing at all. ‘Within my frst months atthe Clini I realised chat the thing L lacked was «real pry pathology, a xcience which showed what was happening inthe ‘mind during a psychosis. I eould never be satisfied with the idea that al ‘thatthe patents produced, expecially the schizophrenics, was nonsense and chaoti gibberish, On the contrary, I soon convinced myself that their ro-