We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting Worse
by James Hillman
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This furious, trenchant, and audacious series of interrelated dialogues and letters takes a searing look at not only the legacy of psychotherapy, but also practically every aspect of contemporary living--from sexuality to politics, media, the environment, and life in the city. James Hillman--controversial renegade Jungian psychologist, the man Robert Bly has called "the most lively and original psychologist we've had in America since William James"--joins with Michael Ventura--cutting-edge show more columnist for the L.A. Weekly--to shatter many of our current beliefs about our lives, the psyche, and society. Unrestrained, freewheeling, and brilliant, these two intellectual wild men take chances, break rules, and run red lights to strike at the very core of our shibboleths and perceptions. show lessTags
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Lots of interesting ideas thrown around, and a few ridiculous ones. By design not very coherent.
This book inspired my Master's thesis, which was on the therapeutic value of putting your art into the world. A brilliant, fascinating book.
a daring attempt to question psychotherapy with enlightening views
I noticed this on my list of books read in 2019--why didn't I comment on this in 1993 when I read it?
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James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1926. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years before joining the Navy's Hospital Corps in 1944. He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with a degree in mental and moral science from Trinity College in Dublin. In show more 1953, he moved to Zurich and enrolled at the C. G. Jung Institute. In 1959, he became the director of studies at the institute and stayed in that position for the next 10 years. He wrote over 20 books including Suicide and the Soul, Re-Visioning Psychology, and The Soul's Code. He died due to complications of bone cancer on October 27, 2011 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The genesis of this book can be told in a short series of thats: that the psychologist James Hillman's work (especially his book The Dream and the Underworld) influenced, instigated, and haunted my thought lon... (show all)g before we started crossing paths at various conferences and lectures; that one day I was talking about Hillman to Kit Rachlis, the editor of the L.A. Weekly, and that Kit was so intrigued he suggested I do a cover-story interview with Jim; that the cover-story (which, in extended form, is now Part One of this book) was widely and strenuously discussed up and down the town; and that, on the strength of this reaction, we decided to make a book.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)VENTURA AND HILLMAN: —can miss it once.
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