The June 2025 issue of the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, published on June 12, provide an innovative blend of traditional scholarship and multimedia contributions, aligning with the 2024 conference theme, “Theory to Action: Taking Jungian Ideas into the World.” Edited by Catriona Miller, whose introduction outlines the volume’s focus, this edition explores trauma, the climate crisis, and psychological transformation.
The issue features a diverse array of articles, starting with Halide Aral’s Masculine Initiation in the Henriad, which examines initiation rites in Shakespeare’s plays, followed by Matthew Fike’s Three Perspectives on Jung, Wells, and Schreber, analyzing Jung’s interactions with H.G. Wells and Daniel Paul Schreber. Andrew McWhirter’s brief Last Year at Marienbad interprets the film through archetypal lenses, while Greg Mahr, David Moore, Christopher Drake, and Anthony Reffi’s Depth Psychology and Acute Trauma applies Jungian insights to trauma treatment. Heather Hines’ Medusa’s Gaze: Trauma, Transformation, and Environmental Resonance connects mythological transformation to ecological concerns, and Eissa Hashemi and Maryam Tahmasebi’s Psychodynamics of Leadership and Climate Action explores leadership through a Jungian framework.
The Conversations in the Field section introduces multimedia, with Evija Volfa Vestergaard’s Rebalancing the Psyche and Care for the Environment using scuba diving and underwater photography as Jungian-arts-based research into the unconscious, accompanied by oceanic sounds. Elizabeth Èowyn Nelson’s short story Death of a Monster offers a narrative exploration, and Ryan J. Bush’s From Wandering to Illumination employs 3-D photography to depict psychological awakening. The issue concludes with book reviews: Edward Bloomfield reviews Roger Willoughby’s *Freud’s British Family*, and Leslie Gardner critiques Paul Bishop’s *Jung and the Epic of Transformation Volume 1*.