The Exploding Self: the Creative and Destructive Nucleus of the Personality

Creative regression, living closer to one's fundamental nature, is what we are learning about today. But how to apply our knowledge on a world scale so as collectively to avoid violent swings and explosions is, of course, in unsolved problem of our era of massive blindness and consequent mass behaviors. Joseph Redfearn, M. D., was born in 1921 in a Yorkshire mining town and educated at John Hopkins, Baltimore, and Maudsley Hospital, London. Since 1968 he has been a training analyst for the Society of Analytical Psychology in London. He is a past chair and was its director of training for many years.