ABSTRACT
I am delighted to contribute to this special volume for Andrew Samuels because it gives me the opportunity to reflect upon his unique achievements. Professor Samuels has been important to the development of scholarship and to its deepening social functions. In addition to a formidable research career, he has done what none other could do, in creating powerful groups of clinicians and academics. Some of these groups take the work of therapy into the sickness of the social and political world. Some groups bring together therapists and academics (and those who are both), in order to foster new research, to challenge the parameters of Jungian practice, and, crucially, from my own point of view, to try to heal what is arid in conventional university disciplines. Samuels’s coining of the term Post-Jungian to indicate not only ‘after Jung’, but also the ability to criticize and revise, is a testimony to the liberatory effect of his work so far (Samuels 1985). Andrew Samuels has been inspirational in creating the possibility of a multi-disciplinary Jungian Studies.
