A reader asked --
Of the books you recommend, which are suitable for someone not steeped in Jungian analysis? I enjoy reading and reading about psychoanalysis, but I am not, and nor do I intend to be, a psychotherapist.
That's a great question and one I am dealing with now as I am going to be teaching an introduction to Jung at our Senior College this spring. In the sidebar I have created another list -- books for the Jung-curious. Read away!
These books range from overviews of Jungian psychology (Stein's book and Man and His Symbols) to Jung on his own life to a basic book on working with dreams and one using fairy tales. There are many many more but these are books I myself have returned to often.
Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction
Murray Stein
C.G. Jung
Carl Gustav Jung
Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
Robert A. Johnson
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estes