From the Brink

Paul Ashton is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst living in Cape Town. He is a father of three daughters and has two granddaughters. Having completed a circumnavigation in a self-built yacht he has now developed a passion for the mountains and bush (flora and fauna) of Southern Africa; a passion he shares with his wife Helise. He has published review articles on books by Lyn Cowan and Rose-Emily Rothenberg and delivered lectures on 'Medea and Filicide', the sculptors 'Hepworth and Moore' and 'The Art of the Void'. He has a deep interest in literature, art and music.

Contents 1 On the territory of the void 2 A walk on the wild side: connecting "the void" with people 3 Primary or secondary? 4 Psychotherapy and spirituality 5 Empty oneself 6 The void in psychogenic autism7 Another "black hole" 8 Memory within the Borderline condition 9 Trauma as void experience 10 Myths and legends of creation 11 Dimitri's void 12 The king's sacrifice 13 The "Birthday Present" 14 The dark night of the soul 15 Aspects in the treatment of void states 16 Connections, walls and windows 17 On active imagination 18 Void as a gender experience: Part 1: Mostly masculine 19 Void as a gender experience: Part 2: Female encounters