Psychological Perspectives the quarterly journal of the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles has just published their lates issue. It is a special issue on the war of Russia on Ukraine and features a powerful selection of articles written by Ukrainian colleagues and translated into English. Editor Lance Owens worked with Oksana Zeleska and Oksana Yakushko to bring this issue.
The collection begin with On Terrible Loss, Grief, and Sorrow in Times of War a paper by Donald Kalsched, Oksana Zaleska & Oksana Yakushko which introduces the collection of essays. It is free to read. Editor Lance Owens’ introduction Perspective: Therapy and War is also free to read.
Other articles in the issue include: Archetypal Hero of Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko as a Pan-Archetypal Ukrainian by Oksana Yakushko and Oksana Pirkhal; Homes and Selves in Times of War: Ukrainian Rituals and Analytic Practices with Children who are Surviving Russian Aggression; All You Have is this Small Backpack by Yuliia Hrushetska; In the Desert of Loss: Oases and Mirages in Grief by Ganna Kovalenko; and Love and Betrayal in the Face of Catastrophe by Vadim Skvarko. There are several other excellent articles in the collection.