Meaningful Coincidences Are Not Supernatural.
They’re Completely Natural.
New book by noted psychoanalyst challenges Jung’s anti-scientific
conclusion on ‘synchronicities, while providing readers with tools
of empowerment for expanding self-awareness.
New York, NY, February 2010 — Beginning in the late 1960s, noted
New York psychoanalyst Dr. Gibbs Williams began investigating the
fascinating and perplexing subject of meaningful coincidences,
more commonly know in his trade as synchronicities, in which a
person experiences two or more events that are causally unrelated
but occur together in a meaningful way. Williams, after several
decades, hundreds of patients, thousands of observations, millions
of reflections—and the surprising realization that the founder of
analytical psychology, Carl Jung, missed the mark—has published
a fascinating book on the topic called “Demystifying Meaningful
Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal
Unconscious, and the Creative Process.”
This new book (Jason Aronson Publishers, 330 pp.)
offers an original theory on the nature of synchronicity which
advances the idea that they are self-generated messages arising
from our own unique creative processes.
Based on a critical evaluation of many of Williams’
most captivating cases, “Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences”
is bound both to inform and provoke readers around the world:
it will inform all those who are intrigued by notions of life
purpose, identity, self-development, mysticism, consciousness
studies and other similar disciplines; and it will provoke all
those who consider the renowned Jung to be nearly infallible in
his psychoanalytic explanations.
It can also help the many people who struggle from time to time
with the meaning of their own sometimes mind-boggling synchronistic
experiences.
“Jung spent a great deal of his life investigating the nature and
purpose of these anomalous occurrences. His partly psychological
and partly mystical/magical theory has dominated the field for the
past half-century,” Williams says. “In my book, I objectively
challenge his basic assumptions concerning the nature of reality,
how we are thought to have knowledge of reality, and what that
knowledge really consists of.”
This book is a fascinating journey into an equally fascinating
topic that will be as of much interest and value to the general
public as it will be to professionals in psychiatry, psychoanalysis
and psychotherapy.
In addition to providing many thought-provoking facts and ideas,
the book can also serve as a blueprint to help readers identify,
decode and interpret the self-generated messages of synchronicity
in ways that are intellectually and emotionally innovative and
beneficial.
“In short,” Williams adds, “the book will stimulate self-awareness
and, in doing so, expand consciousness.”
Dr. Williams has had a richly colorful 44-year career as a psychologist
and psychotherapist, including a pioneering role in an addiction
treatment program in New York City called Odyssey House.
Along with upcoming speaking engagements, a continuing
practice and additional psychoanalytical research, Williams has
also begun writing his next book, which will recount his work with
addicts in the 1960s.
“Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities):
The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process,
”published by Jason Aronson Publishers (an imprint of Rowman &
Littlefield),
is available from all major online booksellers, including amazon.com.
Dr. Gibbs Williams can be reached at [email protected].
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