James Astor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4493250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Astor |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Astor |
| SIGNATURE | ASTOR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transnational Press London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
James Astor in conversation with Warren Colman
In this interview with Warren Colman, James Astor speaks about his development as a Jungian analyst from his own experience of personal analysis in the 1960s to his recent retirement from clinical practice. The discussion covers his long association with Michael Fordham, the child analytic training at the SAP, the infant observation seminars with Fordham and Gianna Henry through which Fordham was able to make new discoveries about infant developm…
Saying what you mean, meaning what you say
As analysts, we strive to say what we mean, which involves understanding the other person's communication, finding the appropriate form of words to articulate what we have understood, and expressing them in the tone of voice which can be heard. Meaning what we say refers to the authenticity of our response, that what we say is sincere. My theme touches on different ways of saying what we mean and how this can affect the meaning of what we say. So…
Two papers by Michael Fordham (d.1995)
The Journal has decided to publish a selection of previously unpublished papers from the Michael Fordham archives, which are being prepared for publication by James Astor and Elizabeth Urban, and of which the two papers published here are the first, both dating from the 1950s. 'Analyst and Priest' seems to be addressed to an audience of mainly religious people who are interested in the relation between psychology and religion and to whom Fordham …
Are Urban and Colman really in opposition over Fordham's model of the self
The Geography of Meanings
Understanding the Self‐Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice
Fordham, feeling, and countertransference
This is a paper about the difficulties we as analysts get into when we find that a patient has activated something in our unconscious which we cannot resolve in our work with them. Fordham described at the end of his life, in a number of papers, his difficulties and discomfort at not being able to resolve an impasse with one of his patients. From the conversations we had about this situation I knew this caused them both a lot of pain. After Fordh…
On the m ortificatio of Jungian psychology’ by Spiegelman, Marvin
The self invented personality? Reflections on authenticity and writing analytic papers
One of the great themes of American literature is the self-invented personality, whether it is Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby or one of Philip Roth's alter egos, such as Nathaniel Zuckerman. This is just one of several approaches which novelists employ. They take a problem from life, perhaps their own, and then embark on solving the problem of the book-which is how to write about this. Sometimes, as in Tobias Wolff's novel Old School, the personality …
A conversation with Dr Michael Fordham
In this interview in Dr Fordham's 83rd year he describes how he started to work with children, and how Mrs Jung was supportive. He talks about the initial suspicion this interest generated in the wider Jungian community. He refers to his acceptance of and interest in the psychotic elements in child analysis and his transference-based approach to working with these elements. He reflects on his own birth, his work with evacuee children in hostels d…
Response to Dr Britton’s paper
Response to Don Kalsched's ‘Daimonic elements in early trauma’ and Elizabeth Urban's ‘Developmental aspects of trauma and traumatic aspects of development’
Analytical psychology and its relation to psychoanalysis. A personal view
Jungian analysis is a process based on analytical psychology; it shows local variations giving emphasis to different aspects of Jung's work within the various societies which make up the IAAP. I describe the orientation of the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP). I have emphasized the different origins of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and described how, because we encounter the same clinical phenomena, our differences centre on tech…
Is transference the ‘total situation’
This paper examines through the detailed explication of analytic material the author's experience of a psychoanalytic and a Jungian way of understanding the interactions between him and his patient. This comparative approach considers where the differences lie with respect to timing and content of interpretations and where the differences are essentially tactical rather than theoretical
Some reflections on empathy and reciprocity in the use of countertransference between supervisor and supervisee
Reciprocity refers in its general meaning to a mutual give and take. It is a background feature of all productive supervisory relationships. In this essay I want to bring it into the foreground. I will describe it by contrasting supervision and analysis. For, in my view, that is exactly what reciprocity is in the supervisory relationship: it is an attitude of mind in which the supervisor performs the task of differentiating internally the supervi…
Response to Joyce McDougall. The triumph of compassion over mourning
Michael Fordham
Michael Fordham's immense contribution to analytical psychology has been marked by its combination of practical and theoretical genius. Before his retirement he ran a full clinical practice while concurrently developing the Society of Analytical Psychology and its child and adult training co-editing the Collected Works of C. G. Jung and editing the Journal of Analytical Psychology for fifteen years. In his published work there has emerged a consi…
Supervision, Training, and the Institution as An Internal Pressure
The Emergence of Fordham's Model of Development
In bringing together some points from more than fifty years of Michael Fordham's work, I have endeavoured to show how there has emerged a consistent and original contribution to analytical psychology. In particular his ideas of the primary psychosomatic self and of whole objects preceding part objects are original to him. This contribution, with its implications for practice and theory, has in part reflected the capacity Fordham has for combining…
The Breast as Part of the Whole
Some Aspects of Female Sexuality, Psychopathology and Their Relation to Infantile States of Mind
Fordham, feeling, and countertransference
This is a paper about the difficulties we as analysts get into when we find that a patient has activated something in our unconscious which we cannot resolve in our work with them. Fordham described at the end of his life, in a number of papers, his difficulties and discomfort at not being able to resolve an impasse with one of his patients. From the conversations we had about this situation I knew this caused them both a lot of pain. After Fordh…
The self invented personality? Reflections on authenticity and writing analytic papers
One of the great themes of American literature is the self-invented personality, whether it is Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby or one of Philip Roth's alter egos, such as Nathaniel Zuckerman. This is just one of several approaches which novelists employ. They take a problem from life, perhaps their own, and then embark on solving the problem of the book-which is how to write about this. Sometimes, as in Tobias Wolff's novel Old School, the personality …
Are Urban and Colman really in opposition over Fordham's model of the self
Some reflections on empathy and reciprocity in the use of countertransference between supervisor and supervisee
Reciprocity refers in its general meaning to a mutual give and take. It is a background feature of all productive supervisory relationships. In this essay I want to bring it into the foreground. I will describe it by contrasting supervision and analysis. For, in my view, that is exactly what reciprocity is in the supervisory relationship: it is an attitude of mind in which the supervisor performs the task of differentiating internally the supervi…
Supervision, Training, and the Institution as An Internal Pressure
The Breast as Part of the Whole
Saying what you mean, meaning what you say
As analysts, we strive to say what we mean, which involves understanding the other person's communication, finding the appropriate form of words to articulate what we have understood, and expressing them in the tone of voice which can be heard. Meaning what we say refers to the authenticity of our response, that what we say is sincere. My theme touches on different ways of saying what we mean and how this can affect the meaning of what we say. So…
James Astor in conversation with Warren Colman
In this interview with Warren Colman, James Astor speaks about his development as a Jungian analyst from his own experience of personal analysis in the 1960s to his recent retirement from clinical practice. The discussion covers his long association with Michael Fordham, the child analytic training at the SAP, the infant observation seminars with Fordham and Gianna Henry through which Fordham was able to make new discoveries about infant developm…
Response to Dr Britton’s paper
Response to Don Kalsched's ‘Daimonic elements in early trauma’ and Elizabeth Urban's ‘Developmental aspects of trauma and traumatic aspects of development’
Analytical psychology and its relation to psychoanalysis. A personal view
Jungian analysis is a process based on analytical psychology; it shows local variations giving emphasis to different aspects of Jung's work within the various societies which make up the IAAP. I describe the orientation of the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP). I have emphasized the different origins of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and described how, because we encounter the same clinical phenomena, our differences centre on tech…
Is transference the ‘total situation’
This paper examines through the detailed explication of analytic material the author's experience of a psychoanalytic and a Jungian way of understanding the interactions between him and his patient. This comparative approach considers where the differences lie with respect to timing and content of interpretations and where the differences are essentially tactical rather than theoretical
Response to Joyce McDougall. The triumph of compassion over mourning
The Emergence of Fordham's Model of Development
In bringing together some points from more than fifty years of Michael Fordham's work, I have endeavoured to show how there has emerged a consistent and original contribution to analytical psychology. In particular his ideas of the primary psychosomatic self and of whole objects preceding part objects are original to him. This contribution, with its implications for practice and theory, has in part reflected the capacity Fordham has for combining…
Some Aspects of Female Sexuality, Psychopathology and Their Relation to Infantile States of Mind
Some Aspects of Female Sexuality, Psychopathology and Their Relation to Infantile States of Mind
The Breast as Part of the Whole
The Emergence of Fordham's Model of Development
In bringing together some points from more than fifty years of Michael Fordham's work, I have endeavoured to show how there has emerged a consistent and original contribution to analytical psychology. In particular his ideas of the primary psychosomatic self and of whole objects preceding part objects are original to him. This contribution, with its implications for practice and theory, has in part reflected the capacity Fordham has for combining…
Supervision, Training, and the Institution as An Internal Pressure
Michael Fordham
Michael Fordham's immense contribution to analytical psychology has been marked by its combination of practical and theoretical genius. Before his retirement he ran a full clinical practice while concurrently developing the Society of Analytical Psychology and its child and adult training co-editing the Collected Works of C. G. Jung and editing the Journal of Analytical Psychology for fifteen years. In his published work there has emerged a consi…
Some reflections on empathy and reciprocity in the use of countertransference between supervisor and supervisee
Reciprocity refers in its general meaning to a mutual give and take. It is a background feature of all productive supervisory relationships. In this essay I want to bring it into the foreground. I will describe it by contrasting supervision and analysis. For, in my view, that is exactly what reciprocity is in the supervisory relationship: it is an attitude of mind in which the supervisor performs the task of differentiating internally the supervi…
Response to Joyce McDougall. The triumph of compassion over mourning
Is transference the ‘total situation’
This paper examines through the detailed explication of analytic material the author's experience of a psychoanalytic and a Jungian way of understanding the interactions between him and his patient. This comparative approach considers where the differences lie with respect to timing and content of interpretations and where the differences are essentially tactical rather than theoretical
Analytical psychology and its relation to psychoanalysis. A personal view
Jungian analysis is a process based on analytical psychology; it shows local variations giving emphasis to different aspects of Jung's work within the various societies which make up the IAAP. I describe the orientation of the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP). I have emphasized the different origins of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and described how, because we encounter the same clinical phenomena, our differences centre on tech…
Response to Don Kalsched's ‘Daimonic elements in early trauma’ and Elizabeth Urban's ‘Developmental aspects of trauma and traumatic aspects of development’
Response to Dr Britton’s paper
The self invented personality? Reflections on authenticity and writing analytic papers
One of the great themes of American literature is the self-invented personality, whether it is Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby or one of Philip Roth's alter egos, such as Nathaniel Zuckerman. This is just one of several approaches which novelists employ. They take a problem from life, perhaps their own, and then embark on solving the problem of the book-which is how to write about this. Sometimes, as in Tobias Wolff's novel Old School, the personality …
A conversation with Dr Michael Fordham
In this interview in Dr Fordham's 83rd year he describes how he started to work with children, and how Mrs Jung was supportive. He talks about the initial suspicion this interest generated in the wider Jungian community. He refers to his acceptance of and interest in the psychotic elements in child analysis and his transference-based approach to working with these elements. He reflects on his own birth, his work with evacuee children in hostels d…
Fordham, feeling, and countertransference
This is a paper about the difficulties we as analysts get into when we find that a patient has activated something in our unconscious which we cannot resolve in our work with them. Fordham described at the end of his life, in a number of papers, his difficulties and discomfort at not being able to resolve an impasse with one of his patients. From the conversations we had about this situation I knew this caused them both a lot of pain. After Fordh…
On the m ortificatio of Jungian psychology’ by Spiegelman, Marvin
The Geography of Meanings
Understanding the Self‐Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice
Are Urban and Colman really in opposition over Fordham's model of the self
Two papers by Michael Fordham (d.1995)
The Journal has decided to publish a selection of previously unpublished papers from the Michael Fordham archives, which are being prepared for publication by James Astor and Elizabeth Urban, and of which the two papers published here are the first, both dating from the 1950s. 'Analyst and Priest' seems to be addressed to an audience of mainly religious people who are interested in the relation between psychology and religion and to whom Fordham …
Saying what you mean, meaning what you say
As analysts, we strive to say what we mean, which involves understanding the other person's communication, finding the appropriate form of words to articulate what we have understood, and expressing them in the tone of voice which can be heard. Meaning what we say refers to the authenticity of our response, that what we say is sincere. My theme touches on different ways of saying what we mean and how this can affect the meaning of what we say. So…
James Astor in conversation with Warren Colman
In this interview with Warren Colman, James Astor speaks about his development as a Jungian analyst from his own experience of personal analysis in the 1960s to his recent retirement from clinical practice. The discussion covers his long association with Michael Fordham, the child analytic training at the SAP, the infant observation seminars with Fordham and Gianna Henry through which Fordham was able to make new discoveries about infant developm…
Psychology (18 works) · Psychoanalysis (16 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Citation (11 works) · Library science (11 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Jungian Analytical Psychology (7 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 works)