Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary psychotherapy, Contemporary Jungian Analysis, written by members of the Society of Analytical Psychology in London, covers the key concepts of Jungian analysis and therapy as it is practised today. Each chapter brings together two essays by different authors to give different perspectives on themes which are of common interest to psychotherapists of all persuasions. Topics include:
* infancy
* gender
* transference
* popular culture
* assessment and pathology
* dreams and active imagination
* the training of the therapist
* religious and spiritual issues.

Why is the moving image so important in our lives? What is the link between the psychology of Jung, Freud and films? How do film and psychology address the problems of modernity? Visible Mind is a book about why film is so important to contemporary life, how film affects us psychologically as individuals, and how it affects us culturally as collective social beings. Since its inception, film has been both responsive to historical cultural conditions and reflective of changes in psychological and emotional needs. Arising at the same moment over a century ago, both film and psychoanalysis helped to frame the fragmented experience of modern life in a way that is still with us today. Visible Mind pays attention to the historical context of film for what it can tell us about our inner lives, past and present. Christopher Hauke discusses a range of themes from the perspective of film and analytical psychology, these include: The Face, The Shadow, Narrative and Story, Reality in Film, Cinema and the American Psyche, the use of Movies in the Psychotherapy Session and Archetypal themes in popular film. Unique to Visible Mind, six interviews with top film professionals from different departments both unlocks the door on the role of the unconscious in their creative process, and brings alive the reflexive critical thinking on modernity, postmodernity and Jungian psychology found throughout Visible Mind. Visible Mind is written for academics, filmmakers and students who want to understand what Jung and Freud's psychology can offer on the subject of filmmaking and the creative process, for therapists of any background who want to know more about the significance of movies in their work and for film lovers in general who are curious about what makes movies work.

Since Jung and Film was first published in 2001, Jungian writing on the moving image in film and television has accelerated. Jung and Film II: The Return provides new contributions from authors across the globe willing to tackle the broader issues of film production and consumption, the audience and the place of film culture in our lives.

As well as chapters dealing with particular film makers such as Maya Derren and films such as Birth, The Piano, The Wrestler and Breaking the Wave, there is also a unique chapter co-written by documentary film-maker Tom Hurvitz and New York Jungian analyst Margaret Klenck. Other areas of discussion include:

• the way in which psychological issues come under scrutiny in many movies
• the various themes that concern Jungian writers on film
• how Jungian ideas on psychological personality types can be applied in fresh ways to analyse a variety of characters.

The book also includes a glossary to help readers with Jungian words and concepts. Jung and Film II is not only a welcome companion to the first volume, it is an important stand- alone work essential for all academics and students of analytical psychology as well as film, media and cultural studies.

Contents:
C. Hauke, I. Alister, Introduction. List of films. Acknowledgements. A Jungian Perspective. D. Fredericksen, Jung/Sign/Symbol/Film. L. Lennihan, The Alchemy of Pulp Fiction. P. Berry, The Moving Image, Particular Films. J. Hollwitz, The Grail Quest and Field of Dreams. J. Ryan, Dark City. D. Williams, 'If you Could See what I've Seen with your Eyes...' Post-human Psychology and Blade Runner. J. Izod, 2001 - A Space Odyssey. C. Hauke, 'Let's Get Back to Finding Out who we Are': Men, Unheimlich and Returning Home in The Films of Steven Spielberg. L. Hockley, Studies in Genres and Gender. Film Noir: Archetypes or Stereotypes. M. Dougherty, Love-life: The Use of Films in Analysis in the Interpretation of Gender. J. Beebe, Anima in Film. J. Wyly, 'Gay Sensibility', the Hermaphrodite, and Pedro Almodovar's Films. Glossary.

"Human Being Human" explores the classical question What is a human being? and produces original and challenging insights in the process of providing an answer.
In examining our human being, Christopher Hauke challenges the notion of human nature, questions the assumed superiority of human consciousness and rational thinking and pays close attention to the contradiction of living simultaneously as an autonomous individual and a member of the collective community. The main chapters include:
Whose in Charge Here? Knowledge, Power and Human Being
That Thinking Feeling
Is Modern Consciousness Different? Modern Consciousness and the Quest for Spirituality
Endings, the Unconscious and Time
Orpheus, Dionysus and Popular Culture
The book is also structured around brief panel essays with a distinctly personal tone, such as: The Rise of revulsion: Spitting and The Stones, What is the Double When the Original is Gone? And "I lived with the speaking clock."All these themes are amplified by examples drawn from psychotherapy, film, literature and popular culture, and illustrated with many evocative photographs and film stills.
"Human Being Human" provides an original perspective on what it is to be a human being, the value of popular culture, the relationship between the individual and the collective and our assumptions about truth, reality and power. Written in a highly accessible style, this book is both intellectually and emotionally satisfying and will fascinate anyone interested in contemporary psychology, cultural studies, film and media, social history and psychotherapy.

Im Praxisbuch "Kennzahlen und Kennzahlensysteme fur Banken" werden mehr als 100 Bankkennzahlen sowie ausgesuchte bankbetriebswirtschaftliche Methoden (z.B. Basel III, Marktzinsmethode) ubersichtlich und transparent zusammengefasst und dargestellt. Ziel des Buches ist es, die verschiedenen Facetten von Kennzahlen bei der Analyse von Banken kompakt darzustellen. Dabei werden kritische Aspekte beleuchtet sowie Fachbegriffe korrekt eingeordnet. Das Buch ist sowohl fur Praktiker als auch fur Studenten geeignet.