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Susan Grand, August 4, 2012 (view all comments by Susan Grand)
Just bought this book because I recently read an article on James Hillman in the Sun Magazine. Very thought provoking comments on the limiting priorities of our current culture. For example, "..."its' hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation." Looking forward to reading this book!
psyched out, September 1, 2011 (view all comments by psyched out)
Turns "family of origin" counseling on its ear. Hillman revisits more a more archaic cosmology where a "Daimon" (soul) descends to earth and is comes into body through the parents. Rather than the parents creating and forming this person, this acorn chooses the parents and setting it needs to grow into the entity it is destined to be. Brave and thought provoking writing from a psychotherapist who has seen and practiced all sides of Jungian and Freudian therapy. I don't find this book to be a rejection of classical psychotherapy, more the opening of a long closed door into an older room in the house.
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