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Sonu Shamdasani

Disciplines:
jungian psychology/jung scholarship
psychology/history of psychology
higher education/ucl london

Summary

British-Sri Lankan historian of psychology at University College London who is the world's foremost Jung scholar — having edited The Red Book (2009) and The Black Books (2020), written Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology, and providing the most rigorous historical account of analytical psychology's development.

Core Contribution

Transformed Jung scholarship from hagiography to history — by accessing the Zurich archives and publishing The Red Book and Black Books, Shamdasani revealed the actual historical development of Jung's ideas, displacing the idealized official version with a more complex and humanly interesting one.

Notable Works & Achievements

Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology

C.G. Jung: A Biography in Books

Historical Influences

Historical method Jung archives

Intellectual Lineage

London Wellcome Collection

Contemporaries & Peers

John Kerr Deirdre BairAngela Graf-Nold

Minds Influenced

Jung scholarship Jungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

The Red Book The Black Books Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology Jung historiography

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