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Title: Healing Fiction by James Hillman ISBN: 0882143638 Publisher: Spring Audio & Journal Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 4
Summary: Terrific book
Comment: I highly recommend it. But difficult, like all James Hillman's books. His viewpoint is like no one else's. Informed by Jung, but not subservient to him.
Rating: 5
Summary: A masterwork.
Comment: This is the first work by Hillman I read, and that was for a course at the New School for Social Research. Although I have a masters degree in psychology, my background was in cognitive and social psychology. This was part of my introduction into psychopathology and Jungian psychology. I liked it so much that I have read it about 25 times. In reading this book, it is probably good to begin with the third chapter (What Does the Soul Want?), then read chapters one and two. You will find that order of reading the book helps. The emphasis is on the soul (not in a religious sense, but the soul as "psyche") and the needs of the "inner voice." From that point, the use of the case study is developed as a "healing fiction." In the development of that healing fiction, certain symbols, images, and signs are used. Each person, or soul, develops his or her own healing fiction as it strives to reach a balance.
In addition to being a premier Jungian psychologist, James Hillman is a neo-Platonist philosopher. The symbolic influence of ancient gods and goddesses, as well as the demands of the "daimon" on a person are introduced. You may notice that this fits well with some of the writings of Joseph Campbell, who was also strongly influenced by Jung. Hillman demonstrates a wide background in the classics, literature, and philosophy. This is a thinking person's book, especially recommended to students of psychology and to mental health professionals.
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Title: Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman ISBN: 0060905638 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman ISBN: 0060906820 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: July, 1979 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life by James Hillman ISBN: 0345424050 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 05 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman ISBN: 0446673714 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Dennis Patrick Slattery ISBN: 0791443825 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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