Synopses & Reviews
This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.
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"More than any other author in the last part of this century, Hillman deserves credit for restoring 'soul' to its psychological sense." Utne Reader
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"Reading this book is a mind-blowing experience....[It] sizzles with the provocative ideas of a person of obvious talent and imagination." Christian Century
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"As an explorer of the imaginary realm of the psyche faithful to the reality of the archetypes rather than to any one theory about them, Hillman has no living peer." Library Journal
Synopsis
This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of making connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process. Hillman: - argues that modern science wrongly ignores religion- asserts the necessity of spirituality in psychology and the idea of soul-making- argues that modern psychology has wrongly ignored religion, and proposes a new psychology infused with spirituality.- points out that therapy is really soul-making, and psychologists must recognize that the human psyche longs for connection with the immortal.- draws on Greek and Renaissance philosophers as well as the ideas of Freud and especially Jung, in outlining the process of soul-making
Synopsis
A groundbreaking classic work by the pioneer of soul-making.
About the Author
James Hillman is a psychologist, scholar, international lecturer, and the author of more than twenty books, including The Soul's Code, Re-Visioning Psychology, Healing Fiction, The Dream and the Underworld, InterViews, and Suicide and the Soul. A Jungian analyst and the originator of post-Jungian "archetypal psychology," he has held teaching positions at Yale University, Syracuse University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Dallas. He lives in Connecticut.