Coming into Mind

Subtitled 'the mind-brain relationship: a Jungian clinical perspective', this book examines the interface between neuroscience and analytical psychology. The author herself is a clinician and illustrates the book with case histories. It begins with an account of a the brain and its development, moving on to memory systems, the fear system and undoing disassociation. In then looks at the adolescent brain, and the dreaming mind brain and the way in which the self emerges in the course of development. An interesting observation is that Jung's self system is an emergent function of the developing right brain. Wilkinson strikes a delicate balance between neuroscience and psychotherapy. An important theme is the emergence of the self from experiences of relating, and the author considers the very basis of the self to be associative. A very valuable interdisciplinary text for practitioners.