Jung at Heart

Poor Emma, scholar at heart and most definitely ahead of her time, rolled the dice and married Carl, instead of the family friend that seemed like a shoo-in. Carl, marcher-to-a-different-drummer that he was, encouraged Emma to continue her pursuits of knowledge and study, instead of limiting herself to house and home. At least that's how things seemed. As it turns out, "Physician heal thyself" applied to Carl (one of the fathers of shrinkdom) in an alarming way. He had layers of psychological issues, perhaps genetic, and perhaps as a result of childhood trauma. Moreover, it turns out that he wasn't quite as enlightened as it had seemed at the outset of their relationship. Interesting, deeply researched, and enlightening, this book tells the sometimes happy, sometimes not, story of this brilliant but troubled duo.