Canadian Jungian analyst who wrote Alcoholism and Women — a Jungian analysis of alcoholism as a spiritual search gone wrong — contributing to the depth psychological understanding of addiction.
Applies Jungian psychology to alcoholism — arguing that the alcohol craving represents a misdirected search for the numinous, for the transcendence and dissolution of the limited ego, that could be met through genuine spiritual experience — making addiction a spiritual problem as well as a medical one.
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