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Infant Trauma in Adults: A Jungian Selving Transformation

Author(s) : Kelly Polanski

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In this outstanding tome, Kelly Polanski has amassed and packed an impressive amount of knowledge, information, and experience in support of Selving, her term for the process involved in reassembling a psyche that was split at a very early age. Therapists from all backgrounds working with traumatized patients, will profit from the breadth and depth in this monumental work and major advance that will prove to be a milestone in the treatment of patients with bifurcated souls.
Art Funkhouser, retired instructor of dreamwork, C. G. Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland

This insightful book explores unremembered early trauma arising during the process of Selving—in the first year of life—and its enduring impact on adult individuation. Drawing together Jungian developmental concepts, archetypal and dream symbolism, changeling mythology, and contemporary findings in neuroscience, the author offers a poetic inquiry that is at once grounded and convincing, as well as beautiful and compelling.
Lara Lagutina, Dr. Clin. Psych., Training Jungian Analyst, The Society of Analytical Psychology, London

Polanski masterfully synthesizes pertinent research on trauma and the formative infant psyche with Carl Jung’s quintessential work on the unconscious. Her work with adults who suffered early, pre-cognitive trauma restores the Spiritus Vitae of their forgotten inner child. This compelling read is for anyone who desires a deeper understanding of what it means to become an integrated whole self.
Susann Gipson McDonald, Diploma Candidate, C. G. Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland