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University of the Rockies library has added a copy of Liber Novus to its collection of research resources and instructional aides.

The Red Book, as it is also known, is a 205-page manuscript written and illustrated by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. After a falling-out with Sigmund Freud in 1913, Jung collected his theories in a folio-sized, red leather-bound journal between 1914 and 1930. The book is written in calligraphic text and contains many artistic decorations and illustrations. Two-thirds of the pages bear Jung’s illuminations of the text.

Jung is the founder of Analytical Psychology. He is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as “religious” and to recommend spirituality as a cure for alcoholism. He is also one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis. A popular psychometric instrument, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), was principally developed from Jung's theories.

Until its publication, The Red Book was thought to be the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. To publish the collection, the original text was scanned one-tenth of a millimeter at a time with a 10,200-pixel scanner. 

It was first published in late 2009. Until then, only a handful of people had seen the manuscript.

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