Publications
The Orphan: A Journey to Wholeness addresses loneliness and the feeling of being alone in the world, two distinct characteristics that mark the life of an orphan. Regardless if we have grown up with or without parents, we are all too likely to meet such experiences in ourselves and in our daily encounters with others. With numerous case examples, Dr. Punnett describes how loneliness and the feeling of being alone tend to be repeated in later relationships and may eventually lead to states of anxiety and depression. The main purpose of this book is not to just stay within the context of the literal orphan, but also to explore its symbolic dimensions in order to provide meaning to the diverse experiences of feeling alone in the world. In accepting the orphan within, we begin to take responsibility for our own unique life journey, a privileged journey in which one can at some point in time say with pride, I am an orphan.
Publisher: Fisher King Press (2014)
“This awesome book on the orphan, its inner, outer, and symbolic meaning, is a deep and thorough investigation into the feeling of being alone in the world. The core of this archetype gives rise to our potential to search for meaning and wholeness as does all our suffering, and – if we stay with it – it becomes our teacher. Punnett’s book is a must for all of us and reading it grants us a deeply rewarding experience.”
—Kathrin Asper, PhD, author of The Abandoned Child Within
”This well-focused meditation demonstrates that the archetype of the orphan is always alive in us, even if we try to devalue and marginalize it as a symbol we can safely reject along with the children we ask to carry it. Audrey Punnett has illuminated how central this neglected mythologem is to what our souls want therapists, social workers, and clergy to recognize. Her book makes a psychological home for aloneness itself—a rare and touching achievement.”
—John Beebe, MD, author of Integrity in Depth
”At the very end of his biography C.G. Jung wrote, “When Lao-tzu says: ‘All are clear, I alone am clouded,’ he is expressing what I now feel in advanced old age.” This feeling of seclusion is why he, at the age of 75, engraved the quotations from alchemy about the orphan on his stone at Bollingen. It is this wisdom that is behind the archetype of the orphan if we can only accept it. This is, to me, the most precious message of Audrey Punnett’s book on the orphan.”
—Andreas Schweizer, PhD, author of The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld
Audrey Punnett, PhD, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich with diplomas in both Child/Adolescent and Adult Analytical Psychology. She is an Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, the University of California San Francisco – Fresno; Registered Play Therapist – Supervisor, and Certified Sandplay Therapist – Teacher, ISST & Sandplay Therapits of America, past President of the Board of Trustees. She is a member of AGAP, serving on the Board, and the CGJI-SF, past Chair of the Infant, Child & Adolescent Training Committee (iCAT). She has lectured and given workshops on the orphan in Europe, New Zealand, Taiwan, Canada and the USA, and published in peer reviewed Journals. Dr. Punnett maintains a private practice in Fresno, California.
Jungian Child Analysis brings together ten certified Child & Adolescent Analysts (IAAP) to discuss how healing with children occurs within the analytical framework. While the majority of Jung’s corpus centered on the collective aspects of the adult psyche, one can find in Jung’s earliest work clinical observations and ideas that reflect an uncanny prescience of the psychological research that would later emerge regarding the self and the mother-infant relationship. This book discusses and illustrates in very practical ways how one uses an analytical attitude and works with the symbolic: this includes illustrations of analytical play therapy, dream analysis, sandplay, work with special populations and work with the parents and families of the child. Not only will the book capture your interest and further your development in working with children and adolescents, but also will enhance your work with adults.
Jungian Child Analysis, edited by Audrey Punnett; foreword by Wanda Grosso; contributors include Margo M. Leahy, Liza J. Ravitz, Brian Feldman, Lauren Cunningham, Patricia L. Speier, Maria Ellen Chiaia, Audrey Punnett, Susan Williams, Robert Tyminski, and Steve Zemmelman. Publisher: Fisher King Press (2018)
Contents:
Preface – Wanda Grosso
Introduction – Audrey Punnett
Chapter 1 – Margo M. Leahy,
Jung and the Post-Jungians on the Theory of Jungian Child Analysis
Chapter 2 – Liza J. Ravitz,
Child Analysis and the Multilayered Psyche
Chapter 3 – Brian Feldman,
The Aesthetic and Spiritual Life of the Infant: Towards a Jungian
View of Infant Development
Chapter 4 – Lauren Cunningham,
Play, Creation and the Numinous
Chapter 5 – Patricia L. Speier
, The Portal of Play Through a Jungian Frame
Chapter 6 – Maria Ellen Chiaia
, The Importance of Being: Silence in Child Analysis
Chapter 7 – Audrey Punnett
, Children’s Dreams
Chapter 8 – Susan Williams,
Awakening to Inter-subjectivity: Working with Autistic Spectrum
Disorders
Chapter 9 – Robert Tyminski
, Males Coming to Terms with Sexuality in Later Adolescence
Chapter 10 – Steve Zemmelman
, Working with Parents in Child Analysis and Psychotherapy:
An Integrated Approach
Jungian Child Analysis: Cultural Perspectives describes how family heritage, national history and culture influence children and youth and inform their development and relationships. In this book, Jungian child and adolescent analysts from the United States, Brazil, Italy, Romania, Russia, Israel and Taiwan describe cultural, historical and familial factors particular to their countries. Via case studies, they show how these factors are embedded in the psyche. The analysts describe how deep knowledge of the traumatic elements of the history of their nation and of traditional and changing cultural and family values illuminates their work with children, adolescents, and their families. In the case material, they illustrate how these factors can aid or impede the therapy. Their insights not only enhance the work of therapists, but also encourage every reader to look deeper into their own national, cultural, and family history. This deeper look can lead to greater understanding of the Other, as we meet the Other within ourselves, in our work, and in the larger community.Publisher:
Publisher: Analytical Psychology Press (2022)
This timely book brings together seven clinical and cultural perspectives on Jungian analysis with children and adolescents. Using the frame of “participant observer,” editor and analyst Audrey Punnett opens for readers a door onto the many ways for integrating culture, shadow, cultural complexes, and “others” into child analysis. The authors in this fine collection explain how their unique cultural traditions and histories affect their practices with children and adolescents. Virtually any child and adolescent psychotherapist or analyst will find this book refreshing, engaging, and speaking to both the spirit and troubles of our current times.
——–Robert Tyminski, DMH, Author of The Psychological Effects of Immigrating: A Depth Psychological Perspective on Relocating to a New Place
The authors have done a remarkable job in presenting their work as Jungian child and adolescent analysts and psychotherapists within diverse cultural contexts. This book provides a unique view of the impact of culture and cultural complexes upon individual development and analytical treatment in a number of different countries and is the first book of its kind in the Jungian child and adolescent world. The contributions from a broad range of gifted international Jungian analysts and psychotherapists are deeply moving and engaging, and essential reading for those who work with infants, children, and adolescents from different cultural backgrounds. It is an inspiring book for all those who are interested in Jungian child and adolescent analysis, as i combines detailed clinical descriptions along with a depth of theoretical insight integrating the work of Neumann, Fordham, and contemporary Jungian child and adolescent analysts.
——-Brian Feldman, PhD, child, adolescent and adult Jungian analyst; infant observation seminar leader, past chief psychologist Child Psychiatry, Stanford University Medical Center, Visiting Professor in Russia, China and Senegal
Introduction – Audrey Punnett
Chapter 1 – Moshe Alon, Analytical Treatment of Children and Adolescents in a Country Fraught with Contradiction and Conflicts
Chapter 2 – Caterina Vezzoli, Child Analysis in Italy: Play, Creativity, Individuation
Chapter 3 – Audrey Punnett, This Land was Made for You and Me: Encountering the Other in the United States of America
Chapter 4 – Lavinia Tanculescu-Popa, The Children of the Children of Collective Trauma
Chapter 5 – Mei-Fang Huang, Child Analysis in Taiwan (The Republic of China)
Chapter 6 – Batya Brosh Palmoni, The Womb of the Mother Spews Out the Fuhrer
Chapter 7 – Lucia Azevedo, Jungian Child Analysis in Brazil
Chapter 8 – Elena Bortuleva and Viktoria Andreeva, On the Russian Culture and Family
BOOK CHAPTERS
Punnett, A.F. (2016). Psychoanalytic and Jungian Play Therapy, In The Handbook of Play Therapy, 2nd Edition. O’Connor, K., Schaffer, C. & Braveman, L. (Eds.). New York, NY: Wiley Press.
Punnett, A. (2018). Sandplay therapy with preteens, In Play Therapy with Preteens. Green, E., Myrick, A. & Baggerly, J. (Eds.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Punnett, A. (2018). The Acausality of Sandplay: A Natural Process. In Into the Heart of Sandplay. Sherwood, D.N. & Jackson, B.C. (Eds.). Oberlin, OH: Analytical Psychology Press, Sandplay Editions.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Punnett, A.F. & Steinhauer, G. (1984). Relationship between reinforcement and eye movements during ocular motor training with learning disabled children. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 17, 16-19.
Punnett, A.F. & Thurber, S. (1993). Evaluation of the childhood asthma camp experience for children. Journal of Asthma, 30(3), 195-198.
Punnett, A.F. & Thurber, S. (1994). The Child Evaluation Inventory: An adaptation for asthma camp. Children’s Health Care, 23(1), 69-74.
Thurber, S., Ensign, J., Punnett, A.F. & Welter, K. (1995). A meta-analysis of antidepressant outcome studies involving children and adolescents. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 51(3), 340-345.
Punnett, A.F. (2003). The pelican. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 12, (1), 61-75.
Punnett, A.F. (2006). The psyche knows best: An interview with Florence Grossenbacher. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 15, (1), 123-129.
Punnett, A.F. (2006). Book Review: Transformation of the psyche: The symbolic alchemy of the Splendor Solis. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 15, (2), 128-131.
Punnett, A.F. (2009). Symptom, Symbol and Sandplay: Manifestation of a Tic Disorder in a Child. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 18, (1), 27-45.
Punnett, A.F. (2009). A conversation with Martin Kalff. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 18 (1), 69-81.
Kaplan, J, Zappacosta, J & Punnett, A. (2009). Sandplay Therapy with Children: Talking with Parents. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 18, (2), 31-43.
Punnett, A.F. (2010). In conversation with Kazuhiko Higuchi. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 19 (1), 85-89.
Punnett, A.F. (2010). In Memoriam Florence Swan Porter Grossenbacher. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 19 (1), 142. 29-34.
Punnett, A.F. (2011). A conversation with Kay Bradway. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 20, (1), 29-33.
Punnett, A.F. (2011). In conversation with Mario Jacoby. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 20, (2), 77-83.
Punnett, A. F. (2013). The house that Dora found. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 22 (1), pp. 144-147.
Punnett, A. & Asper, K. (2015). A conversation: The abandoned and the orphaned. Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, 9:2, pp. 114-124.
Punnett, A. & Baron, M. (2016). Anima Mundi: Meaningful interconnections through imagination, empathy and sandplay. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 25 (2), pp. 63-81.
Punnett, A. (2019). In conversation with Prof. Dr. Yasunobu Okada. Journal of Sandplay Therapy, 28 (2), pp. 123-125.
Punnett, A. & Green, E.J. (2019). Psychoanalytic Play Therapy. Play Therapy, 14 (3), pp. 46-48.
Punnett, A. & Canfield, M. (2020). Changes in verbalizations during sandplay: An empirical study. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 65, (3), pp. 497-518.