Understanding and treating depression, with its usually complex disturbance pattern, plays a central role in C.G. Jung=s analytical psychology. This book is intended as a guide to the theory and practice of Jungian psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for depressive disorders. Special emphasis is given to flexibility and to the concepts of transference and countertransference in treatment, in order to do justice to the uniqueness of the encounter with depressed people. The explanations are illustrated with numerous case examples from adult psychotherapy.

Dr. Isabelle Meier is a federally certified psychotherapist, a specialist psychologist for psychotherapy FSP and has completed further training in Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapy (KIP) and in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, in addition to further training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, Zurich. She is a teaching analyst, lecturer and supervisor at the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, Zurich. Dr. Gerold Roth is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, a member of Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum (FMH), and in addition to further training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, Zurich, has completed further training as a psychodrama therapist with Psychodrama Helvetia (PDH). He is a teaching analyst and lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, Zurich.