The Fourteenth Congress for Analytical Psychology was held August 23-28, 1998 in the ancient city of Florence, Italy. The theme, “Destruction and Creation: Personal and Cultural Transformations,” is especially appropriate to the Italian setting, with that nation’s history of destruction, both from nature and from human activity, and its tradition – especially in Florence – of creative individuals and institutions. The theme is fitting, also, to the context of Jungian psychology, with its emphasis on these and other pairs of opposites, with their integral role in psychic wholeness. Acknowledging, also, that destruction is indispensable to creation, some Jungians prefer the term “creative unconscious” to the traditional “collective unconscious.”

Editor's Preface by Mary Ann Mattoon Welcome by Luigi Zoja, Vice-President of IAAP by Marco Garzonio, President of CIPA by Concetto Gullotta, President of AIPA Plenary Sessions Duccio's Prayer: Mediating Destruction and Creation with Artists in Analysis by Mary Dougherty Manifestation of the Archetype in Children's Reality by Caterina Vezzoli Medication in the Materia: Doctorly Destructiveness or Chemical Creativity? by Frederick Steele The Infant and the Depressed Mother by Veronique Lemaitre Destruction and Containment in the Analytic Relationship by Takao Oda Masochism: Sacred Suffering by Katherine Olivetti Under the Volcano: Varieties of Anger and Their Transformation by Jan Wiener Music and Melancholy: Marsilio Ficino's Archetypal Music Therapy by Peter Ammann Almost Two Thousand Years and Not a Single New God: Nietzsche's Reception by Jung and Heidegger in the Abyss of National Socialism by Günter Langwieler Theoretical Issues Return of the Prodigal: The Emergence of Jungian Themes in Post-Freudian Thought by Barbara D. Stephens The Problem of Evil in Postmodern Reality by Roman Lesmeister Shame as Teacher: "Lowly Wisdom"at the Millennium by W. Ladson Hinton The Reawakening of the Anima Mundi by Maria L. Spinoglio Jungian Psychology in a Changing World Portraits of Suffering Trees: Destruction of Nature and Transformation of Consciousness by Roberto Gambini Raping the Soul: An Experience of Active Imagination by Marta Tibaldi Destructiveness and Healing: Epistemological and Jungian Reflections by Renos Papadopoulos The Millennium Rite of Passage by Ann Casement Integration of the Self in a New Global Culture by Soren Ekstrom Archetypal Images of Destruction and Creation: The Congress through the Feminine Looking-Glass by International Women's Group (Ursula Wirtz, Coordinator) Body and Psyche Scarred Body; Scarred Psyche: Drawing the Jewel from the Wounds by Rose-Emily Rothenberg Illness and Creativity by Paul Brutsche Transsexualism or Transcendence Unattainable by Claude Bourreille Culture Diversity Analytical Psychology in Various Cultural Settings (Panel) by HenryAbramovitch, Astrid Berg, Roberto Gambini, Renos Papadopoulos, Craig San Roque Cultural Transformation in China: Where the Twain Shall Meet by Laurie Layton Schapira The Search for Cultural and Personal Identity of Second-Generation Foreigners by Linda Briendl Beyond the Story: From Interpretation to the Impact of Stories from Different Cultures by André de Koning Psychology and Art Breaking of the Vessels: Destruction and Creation in the Art of Anselm Kiefer by Mary Wells Barron Destruction and Creative Interplay: In Artistic and Therapeutic Processes by Ingrid Riedel Art within the Analytic Relationship: Scapegoat and Transformation by Joy Schaverien Sandplay: A Place of Transformation by Livia Crozzoli Training and Practice What Constitutes a Good Jungian Analyst: Implications for Training (Panel) by Eli Weisstub, Gustav Bovensiepen, Lyn Cowan, JoAnn Culbert-Koehn, Niro de Souza Vargas, Christian Galliard, Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig, Kathleen Newton Poisons and Panaceas: in Analytic Training (Panel) by Harry Fogarty, Sherry Salman, Thayer Greene, Sam Kimbles Alchemy in the Image of the Analyst by Brigitte Allain-Dupré Supervision (Panel) by Hester Solomon, Donald Kalsched, Jane Knight, Anne Springer, John Beebe Clinical Issues In My End Is My Beginning: Exploring the "Breakdown/Breakthrough" Cycle by Nathan Field A Dark Talent: Silence in Analysis by Catherine Crowther and Victoria Graham Fuller Creating and Destroying: Dionysiac Images of Dismemberment, Death and Renewal by Gary Astrachan Letting Go of the "Unified Theory" Concept (Panel) by Brigitte Allain-Dupré, Jane Bunster, Wanda Grosso, Lois Khan, Giuseppe Maffei, Gianni Nagliero, Verena Rosetti-Gsell, Hildegard Thomas Research Current Developments in Infant Observation Research (Panel) by Brian Feldman, Jane Bunster Empirical Research in Psychoanalysis Analytic Psychotherapy (Panel) by Wolfram Keller, Sabine Stehle, Guido Mattanza, Rainer Dilg, Manfred Krapp Closing Remarks by Verena Kast, President of IAAP, 1995-1998