This fascinating new book explores the puella as an archetypal, symbolic and personality

figure reaching into the classical foundations of Jungian analytical psychology,

focusing on the modern conflicts reverberating personally and culturally

to remove the obstacles for accessing our more complete selves.

Puella is youthful, charming and seductive and unfolds the creative, unusual

wisdom of the feminine. Postmodern fluidity presents other realities, rethinking

and reenacting the truth to oneself. If denigrated, psyche is halted from development,

until addressed. The author employs a cross-disciplinary approach and clinical

vignettes from narratives of real people from diverse backgrounds reflecting

Jungian thought and treatment, along with other psychoanalytical perspectives for

the unfolding of puella.

Examining the puella as a key figure in psychological development within a

diverse world, this book will be appealing to Jungian analysts, and also to mental

health professionals of various paradigms interested in Jungian analytical and

philosophical thought.