Harry Wilmer

Understandable Jung

The Personal Side of Jungian Psychology

265 pages, illustrated, ISBN 0-933029-69-1 / 978-0-933029-69-9, Chiron

Wilmer has a talent for taking the most complex and esoteric elements of Jungian theory and explaining them in a straightforward, amusing and engaging manner. A treasure of wisdom, wit and insight.

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Harry Wilmer is founder, emeritus director and president of the Institute for the Humanities at Salado in the small central Texas village where he has lived since 1971. He is a senior Jungian analyst in private practice in Salado. 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, and later a consultant in psychiatry there. His creative work in the Navy was the subject of an award-winning ABC docudrama, starring Lee Marvin and with Arthur Kennedy as Wilmer. Bill Moyers produced two PBS-TV documentaries on Wilmer’s work at the Salado institute and he has authored numerous books and articles, and lectured throughout the world. He and his wife Jane raised five children.