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Deldon Anne McNeely

Disciplines:
mythology
jungian psychology
body
animation/animal

Summary

American Jungian analyst who wrote Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology — exploring the relationship between touch, the body, and depth psychological healing — and Mercury Rising, on the psychology of the trickster Mercury/Hermes.

Core Contribution

Addresses the body's role in depth psychological healing — touch as a therapeutic act, the body as a psychological organ — contributing to the embodied turn in Jungian practice that moves beyond the purely verbal and interpretive toward somatic engagement.

Notable Works & Achievements

Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology

Mercury Rising

Historical Influences

C.G. Jung Body therapy tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Louisiana

Contemporaries & Peers

Woodman Dunlea

Minds Influenced

Jungian body workJungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

TouchingMercury Rising

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