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, 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.

© Palma Fiacco

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.

© Verena Kast

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.