Carl Jung  Modern Man in Search for A Soul
1933

Modern Man In Search Of A Soul

by C. G. Jung

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Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., London, Third Impression January 1934 stated. First
Impression was September 1933.
Bill Wilson stated on several occasions that Carl Jung was one of AA's Founders. Carl Jung treated
Roland Hazard between 1927 and 1935. Roland in turn carried the message to Ebby Thatcher. Ebby
was the man who carried the Oxford Group message to Bill Wilson in 1934. Jung is mentioned in the
Big Book and credits him with being the source for AA's spiritual solution. Jung stated that the mind of
a chronic alcoholic can only be healed through a vital spiritual experience. Bill Wilson wrote Jung in
1961 crediting Carl Jung with the success of AA. This was done just a few months prior to Jung's
death, but even in failing health Jung did
 respond to Bill W.'s letter.

As an example of Jung's belief in a spiritual solution, from page 264 of this book, Jung writes:

Among all my patients in the second half of my life - that is to say, over thirty five- there has not been
one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say
that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have
given to their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.


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