Integrating Shadow

Ann Casement, LP, (1938–2025), was an honorary professor at the Oriental Academy for Analytical Psychology; senior member of the British Jungian Analytic Association; associate member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (New York); New York State licensed psychoanalyst; member of the British Psychoanalytic Council; member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (New York); member of the British Psychological Society; founder member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association; and patron of the Freud Museum in London. She worked for several years in psychiatry from the late 1970s; chaired the UK Council for Psychotherapy (1997–2001); served on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (2001–2007), and the IAAP Ethics Committee (2007–2016), becoming its chair in 2010. For two years from 1999 she conducted research working with Lord Alderdice and other stakeholders in the profession on a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Lords on the statutory regulation of the psychotherapy/psychoanalytic profession. From 2015 to her death in 2025, she taught and lectured in China, at the initial invitation of Professor Heyong Shen.She lectured and taught in many countries around the world, including the UK, China, Japan, Russia, USA, Canada, Israel, Lithuania, Switzerland, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and in several countries in Europe. She contributed to The Economist, and to psychoanalytic journals worldwide, being on the editorial board of some. She served on the Gradiva Awards Committee (New York) in 2013; gave the Fay Lecture in Texas in 2019; was a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute; a fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine; and was a member of the Council of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She produced many articles, reviews, and several chapters for books. Her published books are: Post-Jungians Today (Routledge, 1998), Carl Gustav Jung (Sage, 2001), Who Owns Psychoanalysis? (Karnac, 2004) nominated for the 2005 Gradiva Award, The Idea of the Numinous (Routledge, 2006) with David Tacey, Who Owns Jung? (Karnac, 2007), Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan (Routledge, 2021), Jung: An Introduction (Phoenix, 2021), and Integrating Shadow: Authentic Being in the World (Karnac, 2025.)

‘Ann Casement was an important figure in post-Jungian analytical psychology. Here, we see her in a teacherly role, writing with great clarity about a concept of Jung’s whose utility has not always fully been recognised. But we also see her original and sometimes courageous mind at work – for example, when she writes about what she calls the “professional shadow” of sexual boundary violations. Her approach to collective shadow themes, such as genocide, is remarkably sensitive and thoughtful.’

• About the author Foreword by Frank N. McMillan, III Preface 1. Shadow2. Persona 3. Scapegoating: The shadow of mimetic desire 4. Professional shadow 5. The savage mind: Complex psychology vs the anthropological gaze References Index