About the Author
The pioneering imaginative psychology of James Hillman that soon will span five decades has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. For the creativity of his thinking, the originator of Archetypal Psychology and author of A Terrible Love of War; The Soul’s Code; and The Force of Character has received many honors, including the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He has held distinguished lectureships at Yale, Princeton, Chicago, and Syracuse Universities, and his books have been translated into some twenty languages. The American public showed its appreciation of his approach to psychology by placing his book, The Soul’s Code, at the top of the bestseller list of serious works of nonfiction. Of his many books, Spring
Publications has published Anima, Loose Ends, Archetypal Psychology:
A Brief Account, Pan and the Nightmare, Suicide and the Soul,
Insearch, Oedipus Variations (with Karl Kerényi), The Thought of the
Heart and the Soul of the World, Inter Views, and Lectures on Jung’s
Typology (with Marie-Louise von Franz). He lives in Connecticut.
>From AudioFile
Noted New Age Jungian James Hillman doubles with a "coreligionist." He and Chicago shrink Ben Sells try to define the nation's zeitgeist in a cozy, ad-libbed one-on-one. From spirituality, they inevitably get to mysticism and conclude with Hillman's theory of the "daimon"Ðthe individual's personal genius or animating spirit. Hillman and costar are engaging, articulate, humorous and, to the uninitiated, a bit silly. Their messageÐwell, it's not for the skeptical, who will be amused or annoyed at their presumption of possessing all the answers. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
