What Drew You to Jungian Analysis?

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I'm curious, what was it that drew you to Jungian analysis as a way that you really did most of your healing? Because in reading the newsletters you've been putting out, reading your latest book, which has a lot of that. That's clearly been a big and important piece for you. I think my alcoholism that I was not dealing with for decades is more than just wanting to drink. It felt like this archetypal force that I needed to really kind of combat. And I needed to go deep. The Jungian frame really allows you to have that, to be very introspective, to not be as concrete, to kind of dance with the transcendent.

Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors.

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