The Tooth Fairy

The tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the hard core drinking driver.

In recent years, the alcohol industry and certain traYc safety organizations have tried to draw a sharp distinction between so-called “social drinkers” and “hard core drinking drivers”. We are led to believe that great progress has been made among social drinkers over the last 20 years, and that this extremely large group invariably drinks “moderately” or “responsibly”. In contrast, little prog...

The fairy godmother has spoken.

The fairy godmother has spoken.

The BJGP welcomes letters of no more than 400 words, particularly when responding to material we have published. Send them via email to [email protected], and include your postal address and job title, or if that's impossible, by post. We cannot publish all the letters we receive, and long ones are likely to be cut. Authors should declare competing interests. 1 rightly points out that 'the d...

A Book on Therapeutic Storytelling A review of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales and Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales

The book of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales and Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales, is one of the best books that one can read for the study of Jung’s psychology for two reasons: first, the author was one of the best students of Jung and his colleague for years; secondly, it analyzes the symbols and the concepts of Jungian psychology. This book expertly introduces the concepts of shadow, anima, ...

Fairy Tales as a Forerunner of European Children's Literature: Cross-border Fairy Tale Materials and Fairy Tale Motifs

Due to the Romantic movement there was a growing attention for recording oral tradition. Pedagogues advocating an independent literature for children recognized the importance of folktales especially for the mediation of bourgeois virtues and social norms. Influenced by the stilistic model of the Brother Grimm's Household Tales and as a result of the propagation of national literatures, a broad...