Jung: Man and Myth - Softcover

Brome has talked to lots of Jung's contemporaries and gathered anecdotes and bits of evidence that shed new light on .... Jung. Brome's Jung is very human, brilliant and passionate.--The Boston GlobeThe New York Times Book Review

The best biography of Jung ever written; a rounded picture of a man who was both troubled and inspired, both scientist and mystic. . . [Brome] has neither over-simplified nor become lost in trivial psychological analysis.--The Spectator

This book is a very readable account of Carl Jung's life and work. The author is steeped in his subject, admires Jung as a psychologist, though not slavishly - I thoroughly enjoyed [it] and expect it will be indispensable reading.

It is simply unprecedented, not only as the first full length biography of one of the most complicated talents of [the] time, but is an insistently factual report on a tumultuous and confusing life produced by the rarest of all biographical gifts.

Carl Jung was – as everyone knows – a famous psychiatrist. Vincent Brome’s in-depth biography is the result of five years’ intensive research in several languages. The result reveals his childhood, love life, relations with Freud, alleged anti-Semitism, and above all the immense range of his work. The result is essential reading to all those interested in the human mind and spirit.