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November Book Spotlight



The Necktie and The Jaguar: 

A memoir to help you change your story and find fulfillment

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Compelling reading for anyone seeking the courage to make more conscious choices and live fully awake, The Necktie and The Jaguar is a memoir with thought-provoking questions that encourage self-exploration. Author Carl Greer—businessman, philanthropist, and retired Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist—offers an illuminating roadmap to individuation and personal transformation. Greer found security in conforming to the cultural expectations of a postwar, midwestern, middle-class upbringing after a childhood tragedy taught him to constrict his emotions. 

Becoming president of an independent oil and gas company, he drove his team to success and built his wealth only to find in midlife that his spiritual self was crying out for expression. Undergoing Jungian analysis and becoming an analyst himself offered some soul nourishment. So did studying and practicing martial arts, whose principles helped him navigate challenges in the world of work. Still, it wasn’t until Greer took a deep dive into shamanic training and practice that he was able to embody the qualities and emotions he had long denied and turn his attention to philanthropy.

Writing about his spiritual practices and reflecting on his vulnerabilities, Greer tells of honoring his longings for purpose and meaning, journeying to transpersonal realms, reinventing his life, and devoting himself to service to others while living with deep respect for Pachamama, Mother Earth. His memoir is an inspirational testament to the power of self-discovery. As Carl Greer learned, you don’t have to feel trapped in a story someone else has written for you.

About the Author

Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, is a retired clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, a businessman, and a shamanic practitioner, author, and philanthropist, funding over 60 charities and more than 1,600 past and current Greer scholars. 

He has taught at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and been on staff at the Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being. Learn more at CarlGreer.com.

Releasing in November

Volume 10 of the 
Collected Works of 
Marie-Louise von Franz – 
The Problem of the Puer Aeternus: Eternal Youth and Creative Genius



This powerful, newly translated edition of Marie-Louise von Franz’s groundbreaking work, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus: Eternal Youth and Creative Spirit, delves into the enduring impact of the eternal youth archetype. As relevant today as when von Franz first delivered the original lectures upon which the book was based, this work confronts society’s ongoing struggle with maturity, urging us to release the “sack of illusions” we carry from childhood into adulthood.


Seasons of Love 
A Lasting Marriage

Seasons of Love is a call for truth in marriage as in life. In this riveting memoir, author Susan Tiberghien confronts the challenges that befall her American self, her French husband, and their family. Seeing marriage as a ‘daily coming’ together, their lasting courtship and commitment enable them to wake each morning, still after sixty-six years, grateful for another day of loving.


New Releases

The Shadow of a Figure of Light: the Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment

The Shadow of a Figure of Light: the Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment delves into the nature of modern psychospiritual transformation by examining the human thirst for wholeness through the lens of alcoholism and addiction. 

Establishing an unknown historical thread that ties renowned psychiatrist C.G. Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson, Cody Peterson shows how their methodologies each stemmed from an ancient shamanistic source constellated through what he has coined the archetype of the Alcoholic. Painting the Twelve Steps as a modern myth, the author presents the Alcoholic as a paradoxical image leading us towards enlightenment amid a deepening, culture-wide spiritual crisis.


Touched by Suicide: 
A Personal and Psychological Perspective on the Longing 
for Death and Rebirth


Touched by Suicide by Christi Taylor-Jones delves into the very personal, yet archetypal, reasons why people choose to end their life, or think about doing so. Although depression and mental illness are often cited as motivating factors, Taylor-Jones contends that anger, shame and self-hatred are greater contributors. 

 Anxiety and impulsivity are also implicated. Underlying the suicidal urge, however, is a deep, and often unconscious, longing to end suffering through transformation and rebirth. Lacking the ability to undergo that process symbolically leaves no choice but to enact it literally.


The Collected Writings 
Of Murray Stein: 
Volume 9 – Jungian Studies

C.G. Jung’s published writings can be studied as documents in the history of psychoanalysis, as works of literature, as depth psychological theory, as existential commentaries about the times in which they were composed, and as autobiographical markers in the author’s own individuation process. The Red Book: Liber Novus combines all of these genres. Essays in this volume are reflections on the many features of Jung’s oeuvre.


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