Will the Post-Jungians Survive?

The author returns to a classification of various schools of post-Jungian analytical psychology he suggested in 1985. At that time, he distinguished three schools: the classical, the genetic (or developmental), and the archetypal. He now considers there are four schools. The archetypal school has either disappeared in relation to clinical practice or been absorbed by the classical school. Although the classical and genetic schools still exist, each has generated an extremist offshoot. The classical school has produced what the author calls the fundamentalist school. The developmental school has produced a school the author describes as “psychoanalytic”. He expresses some concern about the two most recent orientations.