title: Jung and the dreaming: analytical psychology's encounters with Aboriginal culture.
abstract: This article reviews some contributions of the Jungian analytic tradition to indigenous ethnopsychiatric thought in Australia. The authors review Jung's writings on Aboriginal culture, then describe some of their own fieldwork findings. Acknowledging that the contemporary post-Jungian tradition is pluralist, they propose a notion of 'Jungian sensibility.' They discuss some of the ways in which the Jungian sensibility might contribute positively to Aboriginal mental health, with especial reference to theories of subjectivity, and note that some Aboriginal people find the Jungian world-view very compatible with the Aboriginal one.
authors.affiliation: University of Queensland, Australia. Leon_Petchkovsky@health.qld.gov.au
authors.forename: Leon
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Petchkovsky
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: San Roque
authors.forename: Manita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beskow
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D004325:Dreams; D006801:Humans; D007602:Jungian Theory; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation