Edited by Hessel Willemsen, Published by Routledge. “Working as an analyst for nearly 50 years, strongly emphasizing humility with a central focus on shame and temporality, this new volume edited by friend and colleague Hessel Willemsen encompasses reflections and writings dating from his emergence as a young analyst in 1975 through to present day....

Coline Covington starts by challenging the position of the moral philosopher Susan Neimann that “the group retains not just collective responsibility for its past but collective guilt”....

Winner of the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Edited Book 2022....

‘A powerful, unflinching and deep look from multiple vertices into our contemporary collective descent, epitomized by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism in societies makes Ominous Transitions a strong, psychoactive read.”...

The stark realism of Primo Levi’s experiences of the Shoah is considered in light of the current political climate in which the authoritarian other induces a divergence between reality, a state of things as they actually exist or existed, and truth, that which to some extent accords to reality....