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Title: Mirror and Metaphor: Images and Stories of Psychological Life by Robert D. Romanyshyn, J. H. Van Den Berg, David L. Miller, Jan Hendrik Van Den Berg ISBN: 0-9713671-0-8 Publisher: Trivium Publications Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Scientific psychology as history's poem
Comment: Romanyshyn explores the assumptions regarding person, others, body, and world, that are the cornerstones of scientific psychology, anad he compellingly dissolves these in terms of the metaphors of our cultural history. In doing so her articulates the irreducibly metaphorical character of psychological life and opens the possibility of a phenomenological depth psychology. This little book is a classic in phenomenological psychology and metabletics. Its gifts are numerous, and it is essential reading for anyone concerned with the meaning and direction of psychology.
Rating: 5
Summary: Groundbreaking
Comment: Of all the books I have read, very few so profoundly affected me so as to literally change the way I see the world. This is one of them, among a select few. I am amazed how Dr. Romanyshyn can write with such lucidity about ideas that are so profound and otherwise complex; it speaks to his essence as a teacher, who knows how to provide a perfect balance between the concrete and the abstract.
In the very beginning of the book, Dr. Romanyshyn begins with the example of looking in a mirror, and from there he unravels with apparent ease the basic assumptions of modern psychology, and in its place, builds the foundation for a different "psychology" that is concerned with "psychological life." Such a psychological life is profoundly metaphorical in nature--and yet unmistakably grounded in concrete experience.
Make no mistake, Dr. Romanyshyn's thesis, if taken seriously (as it should be) has widespread significance for what it means to understand, teach and practice the discipline of psychology. Psychology from the perspective of psychological life will be a psychology that is not reducible to a natural science, nor to philosophy, nor to literature. But, rather, psychology as a way of seeing comes into its own--and for the first time in the history of the discipline, would finally come home, in the sense that it would for the first time have its own identity.
Certainly, Romanyshyn is standing on the shoulders of giants: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sigmund Freud, Paul Ricoeur, Carl Jung, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Wilhelm Dilthey, Michel Foucault, and many other thinkers in the history of the philosophy of the human sciences. But no one has quite synthesized and formulated psychological life the way Romanyshyn does so in "Mirror and Metaphor." I have no doubt that if Dr. Romanyshyn's text were to be read widely and carefully, psychology as we know it would never be the same.
It is a must read! Don't miss it!
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Title: Ways of the Heart: Essays Toward an Imaginal Psychology by Robert D. Romanyshyn ISBN: 0971367116 Publisher: Trivium Publications Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Soul in Grief: Love, Death and Transformation by Robert D. Romanyshyn, Thomas Moore ISBN: 1556433158 Publisher: Frog Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Technology As Symptom and Dream by Robert D. Romanyshyn ISBN: 0415007879 Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: EROS AND CHAOS by Veronica Goodchild, Dianne Skafte ISBN: 0892540540 Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psycholog by Marie-Louise Von Franz, Marie-Louise von Franz, Von Franz Marie Louise ISBN: 091912304X Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: January, 1981 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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