The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease

Jung began working as a psychiatrist in 1900. He was 25, an assistant in the cantonal mental hospital & clinic of the University of Zurich. Six years later, after he'd become senior staff physician of the Burgholzi Hospital & an associate of Dr Eugene Bleuler, he wrote 'On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox'. A.A. Brill called this work indispensable for every student of psychiatry--'the work which firmly established Jung as a pioneer & scientific contributor to psychiatry'. Ernest Jones described it as 'a book that made history in psychiatry & extended many of Freud's ideas into the realm of the psychosis proper'. An earlier translation by Brill has long been out of print. This volume offers a new translation by R.F.C. Hull. Grouped together with it are nine other papers in psychiatry, the earliest being 'The Content of the Psychoses', written in 1908, when Jung was a leading member of the early psychoanalytical movement. The latest are two papers written in '56 & '58, which embody his conclusions after many years of experience in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia (Bleuler's term for dementia praecox). These studies reflect the original techniques especially associated with Jung.