The Psychoanalytic Approach

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• Barker, Adele Marie. The Mother Syndrome in the Russian Folk Imagination . Columbus, OH : Slavica Publishers, 1986.
• Birkhauser-Oeri, Sibylle. The Mother: Archetypal Image in Fairy Tales . Toronto : Inner City Books, 1988.
• Boyer, L. Bryce. Childhood and Folklore : A Psychoanalytic Study of Apache Personality . New York : Library of Psychological Anthropology, 1979.
• Brun, Birgitte. Symbols of the Soul : Therapy and Guidance Through Fairy Tales . Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 1993.
• Carvalho Neto, Paulo de. Folklore and Psychoanalysis . Coral Gables, FL : University of Miami Press, 1972.
• Cooper, J. C. (Jean C.) Fairy Tales : Allegories of the Inner Life. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1986.
• De Graff, Amy. The Tower and the Well : A Psychological Interpretation of the Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy. Summa, 1984.
• Dieckmann, Hans. Twice-Told Tales : the Psychological Use of Fairy Tales. Wilmette, Ill.: Chiron Publications, 1986.
• Dundes, Alan. Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
• Fairy Tales as Ways of Knowing : Essays on Marchen in Psychology, Society and Literature. Las Vegas: P. Lang, 1981.
• Fantasy and Symbol: Studies in Anthropological Interpretation . New York : Academic Press, 1979.
• Franz, Marie-Louise von. Individuation in Fairytales. Dallas, Tex.: Spring Publications, 1987
• Franz, Marie-Louise von. The Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairytales . Toronto, Inner City Books, 1980.
• Franz, Marie-Louise von. Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales . Boston: Shambhala, 1995.
• Franzke, Erich. Fairy Tales in Psychotherapy : the Creative Use of Old and New Tales. Lewiston, N.Y.: H. Huber, 1989.
• Freud, Sigmund. Dreams in Folklore . New York : International Universities Press, 1958.
• Fromm, Erich. The Forgotten Language; an Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths. New York, Grove Press, 1957
• Harding, M. Esther Woman's mysteries, ancient and modern: a psychological interpretation of the feminine principle as portrayed in myth, story and dreams. Shambhala, 1971.
• Heuscher, Julius E. A Psychiatric Study of Myths and Fairy Tales: their Origin, Meaning, and Usefulness. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1974.
• Huang, Lucia American Young Adult Novels and Their European Fairy-Tale Motifs. Peter Lang Publishing, 1998.
• Kast, Verena. Fairy Tales for the Psyche : Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and the Myth of Sisyphus. New York: Continuum, 1996.
• Kast, Verena. Folktales as Therapy. New York: Fromm International, 1995.
• Kast, Verena. Through Emotions to Maturity: Psychological Readings of Fairy Tales. New York : Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1993.
• Layard, J. (John). A Celtic Quest : Sexuality and Soul in Individuation : a Depth-Psychology Study of the Mabinogion Legend of Culhwch and Olwen. Dallas, Tex.: Spring Publications, 1975.
• Lederer, Wolfgang. The Kiss of the Snow Queen: Hans Christian Andersen and Man's Redemption by Woman . Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986.
• Leo, Schneiderman. The Psychology of Myth, Folklore, and Religion. Nelson-Hall, 1981.
• Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Jealous Potter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Lundell, Torborg. Fairy Tale Mothers. New York: P. Lang, 1990.
• Psyche's Stories : Modern Jungian Interpretations of Fairy Tales. Wilmette, Ill.: Chiron Publications, 1991
• Roheim, Geza. The Eternal Ones of the Dream : a Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Australian Myth and Ritual. New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, 1970
• Roheim, Geza. Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Rollin, Lucy. Cradle and All: A Cultural and Psychoanalytic Reading of Nursery Rhymes. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
• Sharp, Daryl. Chicken Little : The Inside Story : A Jungian Romance (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, No 61) . Inner City Bks, 1993.
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel). Tree and Leaf : Including the Poem Mythopoeia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989
• Witches, Ogres and the Devil's Daughter: encounters with evil in fairy tales. (Translation of Bose im Marchen). Boston : Shambhala, 1992.
• Zipes, Jack David. Breaking the Magic Spell : Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. New York: Methuen, 1984.