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Notes on the Open Letter on Jung and 'Africans' Published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy in November 2018

Samuels A*
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ISSN: 2576-0319  10.23880/pprij-16000212  Received: July 05, 2019  Published: July 17, 2019
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Abstract

The above mentioned Open Letter (OL) was published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy (BJP) in November 2018. The reason for having approached the BJP with the OL is described in it (see below).

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  volume  = {4},
  number  = {4},
  doi     = {10.23880/pprij-16000212}
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