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Carl Gustav Jung, who accomplished nothing short of a revolution in analytical psychology, made a unique impact, both directly and indirectly, on a very large number of people. At the time when many believed women did not have souls, Jung took women seriously and felt that it was important that they have their own work. From the very beginnings of his private practice, Jung had a disproportionately large number of women patients. The women came from all over the world to be healed and many remained as analysts, colleagues, or helpers of one sort or another. These are the women who had the courage to explore both the need for a spiritual link with a man like Jung, and their own deepest feminine roots, and who became known as the Valkyries:

EDITH ROCKERFELLER McCORMICK,  TONI WOLFF,  KRISTINE MANN,  LINDA FIERZ-DAVIS,  M. ESTHER HARDING,  ELEANOR BERTINE,  JOLANDE JACOBI,  MARIE-LOUISE von FRANZ,  HILDE KIRSCH,  MARY BANCROFT,  LUCILE ELLIOTT,  OLGA FROBE-KAPTEYN,  CHRISTIANA MORGAN,  BARBARA HANNAH,  and MARY FOOTE.

From Jung's mother Emilie Preiswerk Jung, to his wife Emma Jung, from the early days in Zurich, to a consideration of the Valkyries themselves in their own work, Maggy Anthony presents a lucid and highly readable analysis of this group of women who were not only influenced by Jung, but who proved to have a crucial influence on him. Anthony respectfully shares their stories with modern readers who want to understand Jung and the impact his ideas had while he was learning-and living-his work.



"Yours is a lovely and valuable book." Claire Douglas, Ph.D., author of Translate this Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan; the Veiled Woman in Jung's Circle.


"Carl Jung attracted a group of women during the course of his career who followed his ideas and explored their feminine roots; this focuses on this circle of followers and is especially notable because Anthony traveled to meet many of the women directly and interviewed others who knew them well. Their works (both published and unpublished) and perspectives are revealed in this intriguing psychology study." Diane Donovan, reviewer for The Midwest Book Review Bookwatch, also appearing in the October, 2000 online issue of Internet Bookwatch.

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