Ruth Ammann / Verena Kast / Ingrid Riedel (eds.)

The Book of Pictures

Treasures from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich`s Archive

The picture archive of the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich contains treasures that few people have seen up to now: More than 4000 original images, drawings and painted pictures by C. G. Jung`s patients, dated from 1917 to about 1950. Many of these images have an entirely extraordinary, emotional and artistic expressive power and some are reminiscent of C. G. Jung`s pictures in the Red Book.
In this large-format, elaborately designed book of images, the most beautiful pictures are now finally accessible to a larger circle of people. Explanatory texts by renowned experts – including Verena Kast and Ingrid Riedel – provide help in understanding the most important picture series. This book opens the doors to the hidden picture treasures at the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich.

  • Presentation of previously unseen, spectacular pictures
  • With articles by authors such as Verena Kast and Ingrid Riedel

Information Sheet

ISBN: 978-3-8436-1017-9
Hardcover
250 pages
Format 19,5 x 26 cm
EUR 36.00
Sold: Czech, Romanian

Title in German

The Editors

Ruth Ammann

Ruth Ammann

Ruth Ammann, curator of the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich`s Archive, qualified architect, Jungian psychoanalyst and sandplay therapist, is training analyst and lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and was the President of the International Society of Sandplay Therpay.

Verena Kast
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Verena Kast

Verena Kast is a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Today she is a lecturer and teaching analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, as well as a psychoanalyst in private practice. She has published numerous books on subjects including emotional psychology, principles of psychotherapy, and the interpretation of fairy tales and dreams. Her works – many of them long-sellers – have been translated into numerous languages.

Ingrid Riedel
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Ingrid Riedel

Ingrid Riedel, honorary professor of the psychology of religion and privately practicing psychotherapist in Constance, Germany, is a lecturer and teaching analyst at the C.G. Jung Institutes in Zurich, Switzerland, and Stuttgart, Germany. She has published numerous books with Patmos.