Swiss painter and Jungian analysand whose work was guided by his analytic work with Jung and Zurich Jungians — Light From the Darkness (a posthumous collection of his dream paintings) became a key text in Jungian art psychology.
Demonstrates how analytical psychology can function as a creative method — Birkhäuser's paintings emerged from active imagination and dream work within Jungian analysis, making him the primary example of the Jungian artist whose work is inseparable from the analytic process.
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