This fascinating new book explores the puella as an archetypal, symbolic and personality figure reaching into the classical foundations of Jungian analytical psychology, focusing on the modern conflicts reverberating personally and culturally to remove the obstacles for accessing our more complete selves.

Puella is youthful, charming and seductive and unfolds the creative, unusual wisdom of the feminine. Postmodern fluidity presents other realities, rethinking and reenacting the truth to oneself. If denigrated, psyche is halted from development, until addressed. The author employs a cross-disciplinary approach and clinical vignettes from narratives of real people from diverse backgrounds reflecting Jungian thought and treatment, along with other psychoanalytical perspectives for the unfolding of puella.

Examining the puella as a key figure in psychological development within a diverse world, this book will be appealing to Jungian analysts, and also to mental health professionals of various paradigms interested in Jungian analytical and philosophical thought.

Susan E. Schwartz is a Jungian analyst based in the USA. She has presented at conferences in the USA and worldwide. She has published books with Routledge: The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds (2020) and Imposter Syndrome and The 'As-If' Personality in Analytical Psychology: The Fragility of Self (2023). Her website is www.susanschwartzphd.com.