Anthony Stevens is a well-known Jung

Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and...

ian analyst

Psychoanalysis

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 and psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

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 who has written extensively on psychotherapy

Psychotherapy

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 and psychology

Psychology

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.

Stevens has two degrees in psychology and a doctorate

Doctorate

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 in medicine

Medicine

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 from Oxford University. He studied for a time under John Bowlby

John Bowlby

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. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Royal College of Psychiatrists

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and the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists. He lectures regularly in the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere.

Stevens is author or co-author of many books and articles on psychology, evolutionary psychiatry, Jungian psychoanalysis and the significance of archetypal imagery.

Selected works

• Jung: A Very Short Introduction
• Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters
• Archetype Revisited
• Ariadne's Clue
• Jung
• The Two Million-year-old Self
• The Roots of War and Terror
• Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming
• Evolutionary Psychiatry