Here is the world of Carl Gustav Jung, the great Swiss psychologist, applied to the real world of the therapist's office. Dr. Wilmer explores the Jungian approach in a deceptively light style, bringing not only his years of experience but his special wit, wisdom, and skill as an illustrator. Anyone interested in the process of psychotherapy--from beginning students to experienced practitioners, and even those in therapy, will gain a fresh understanding and new insights, while enjoying many a few chuckles along the way. I am deeply impressed by Wilmer's enormous creativity.... It is certainly impressive, on the one hand, how he manages to 'make Jung easy' and, on the other, how genuinely Jungian he is with his patients. I should like to declare that if there is a genuine Jungian in the U.S., it is a certain Harry Wilmer. -- C. A. Meier, Professor Emeritus, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Harry Aron Wilmer, M.D. (1917-2005), was founder, emeritus director, and president of the Institute for the Humanities at Salado, the small central Texas village where he had lived since 1971, and where he was a senior Jungian analyst in private practice. Wilmer received his M.D. and other degrees from the University of Minnesota. He has been a National Research Council fellow in the medical sciences at Johns Hopkins, a fellow in internal medicine and neuropsychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, where he was also a consultant in psychiatry. Dr. Wilmer's creative work in the Navy was the subject of an award-winning ABC docudrama, starring Lee Marvin, with Arthur Kennedy as Wilmer. Bill Moyers produced two PBS television documentaries on Wilmer's work at the Salado institute. Dr. Wilmer authored numerous books and articles and lectured throughout the world. He and his wife Jane raised five children. He died in his home at the age of eighty-eight.
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