Jungian Analysis of Toxic Modern Society

<p>Using evidence from anthropology neuroscience psychiatry analytical psychology and evolutionary biology within this book Dr. Erik Goodwyn explores the current cultural psyche and how elements of modern society are contributing to the current loneliness epidemic.</p><p>Despite tremendous advances in technology developed countries are more anxious depressed suicidal and addicted today than we were 100 years ago. Why? Research from many fields of study show that loneliness has become an epidemic in the industrialized world causing very real medical consequences such as addiction depression anxiety and suicide: all things which have been on the rise for decades. And yet because of various historical philosophical and economic reasons we do not nurture traditional cultural ways of satisfying these instincts. This book will explore the idea that stopping the rising misery will not only require socioeconomic changes but will require a profound cultural change. Only then will we be able to stop the slow starvation of social belonging archetypal narratives rituals spirituality and images as vessels of meaning.</p><p>This will be an insightful read for depth psychologists and scholars of analytical psychology as well as health care providers therapists sociologists and those with an interest in cross-cultural studies.</p>