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Integrating Shadow: Authentic Being in the World

Author(s) : Ann Casement

Reviews and Endorsements

Ann Casement was an important figure in post-Jungian analytical psychology. Here, we see her in a teacherly role, writing with great clarity about a concept of Jung’s whose utility has not always fully been recognised. But we also see her original and sometimes courageous mind at work – for example, when she writes about what she calls the “professional shadow” of sexual boundary violations. Her approach to collective shadow themes, such as genocide, is remarkably sensitive and thoughtful.
Professor Andrew Samuels, author of Jung and the Post-Jungians

Ann Casement … integrated an incisive intellect, deep disciplinary erudition, expertise as to varied clinical techniques, and, in her many professional achievements, leadership roles, and publications, soldered together psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience in an innovative manner that is, in my opinion, heretofore unprecedented. … Casement brilliantly explicates on shadow, constructing a tripartite model addressing personal shadow, collective shadow, and archetypal shadow.
Frank N. McMillan III, from the Foreword

Casement’s book is a serious and valuable contribution to contemporary Jungian psychology. It is written with clinical authority and a sense of moral urgency, which manages to convey successfully that the failure to recognize and integrate shadow has devastating consequences, ranging from lost vitality in the individual, to analytic boundary violations to large-scale social violence. Perhaps Casement’s main gift is a reminder that consciousness comes at a cost, and that refusing to pay it endangers both the individual psyche and the collective future.
Katerina Sarafidou, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2026, 71, 1, 1–3