This new book (Jason Aronson Publishers, 330 pp.) offers an original theory on the nature of synchronicity which advances the idea that they are self-generated messages arising from our own unique creative processes.

Based on a critical evaluation of many of Williams’ most captivating cases, “Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences” is bound both to inform and provoke readers around the world: it will inform all those who are intrigued by notions of life purpose, identity, self-development, mysticism, consciousness studies and other similar disciplines; and it will provoke all those who consider the renowned Jung to be nearly infallible in his psychoanalytic explanations.

It can also help the many people who struggle from time to time with the meaning of their own sometimes mind-boggling synchronistic experiences.“Jung spent a great deal of his life investigating the nature and purpose of these anomalous occurrences. His partly psychological and partly mystical/magical theory has dominated the field for the past half-century,” Williams says. “In my book, I objectively challenge his basic assumptions concerning the nature of reality, how we are thought to have knowledge of reality, and what that knowledge really consists of.”

This book is a fascinating journey into an equally fascinating topic that will be as of much interest and value to the general public as it will be to professionals in psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

In addition to providing many thought-provoking facts and ideas, the book can also serve as a blueprint to help readers identify, decode and interpret the self-generated messages of synchronicity in ways that are intellectually and emotionally innovative and beneficial.

“In short,” Williams adds, “the book will stimulate self-awareness and, in doing so, expand consciousness.”

Dr. Williams has had a richly colorful 44-year career as a psychologist and psychotherapist, including a pioneering role in an addiction treatment program in New York City called Odyssey House.

Along with upcoming speaking engagements, a continuing practice and additional psychoanalytical research, Williams has also begun writing his next book, which will recount his work with addicts in the 1960s.

“Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process,” published by Jason Aronson Publishers (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield), is available from all major online booksellers, including amazon.com. Dr. Gibbs Williams can be reached at gwilliamsny11@aol.com.

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