In any event, I decided to order a copy of the Jungian analyst Dr. John A Desteian's 2021 book Coming Together - Coming Apart: The Play of Opposites in Love Relationships (Chiron Publications). He and his wife, Judith A. Savage, who is also a Jungian analyst, practice psychotherapy in their home offices in St. Paul, Minnesota. A member of the Bar of the State of Minnesota, John Desteian completed his analyst's dissertation at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Desteian's 2021 book appears to be a revised and expanded version of his analyst's dissertation at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich.
At the website of Chiron Publications, we are told the following about Desteian's 2021 book: "Relationships are hard enough to negotiate without advice from outsiders who don't know you at all. This book is not a 'how-to' [book] aimed at attaining the ideal. Rather, it is a how-it-is [book], an exploration of how relationships are, how they develop, how they deteriorate, how they may end and how they may even revive."
That's quite an agenda - to say the least! (This text also appears on the back cover of the paperback edition of the Desteian's 2021 book.)
In any event, John A. Desteian has clearly invested an enormous amount of time and energy in studying the work of C. G. Jung - and in writing his 2021 book.
Now, the most efficient way that I can provide you with an overview of Desteian's 2021 book Coming Together - Coming Apart: The Play of Opposites in Love Relationships is to tell you its parts:
Title page (p. i).
Copyright page (p. ii).
Dedication page (p. iii).
"Note from Author" (p. iv).
"Table of Contents" (p. v).
"List of Illustrations" (p. vi).
"Preamble" (pp. 1-14).
"Preface" (pp. 15-17).
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