The Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth [Paperback]

Jean Benedict Raffa (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Inner Ocean/Innisfree Press (January 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931055881
• ISBN-13: 978-0931055881
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #701,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Jean Raffa is an author, speaker, and leader of workshops, dream groups, and study groups. Her job history includes teacher, television producer, college professor, and instructor at the Disney Institute in Orlando and The Jung Center in Winter Park, FL. She is the author of three books, a workbook, a chapter in a college text, numerous articles in professional journals, and a series of meditations and short stories for Augsburg Fortress Publisher.

Through formal and informal means, including a five-year Centerpoint course and an intensive at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, Jean has been studying Jungian psychology and her own inner life for more than twenty years.

Since 1992, Jean has made more than a hundred program appearances, including television, radio, and Internet interviews, classes, workshops, and book signings. Her book The Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth (LuraMedia, 1992) was nominated for the Benjamin Franklin Award for best psychology book of 1992. Reviewed in several journals and featured on the reading lists of university courses, it was also picked by the Isabella catalogue as a must-read for seeking women.

Dream Theatres of the Soul: Empowering the Feminine Through Jungian Dreamwork (Innisfree Press, Inc., 1994) has been used in dreamwork courses throughout the country and is included in Amazon.com's list of the Top 100 Best Selling Dream Books, and TCM's book list of Human Resources for Organizational Development.

Jean is married with two adult children--a daughter with a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy and a son with a Ph.D. in Economics--and five grandchildren. She currently lives in Maitland, Florida and Highlands, North Carolina with her economist husband, Fred.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful reading, June 22, 2004

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Jennifer Searle (Vermont USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth (Paperback)

I really liked this book, I found that I just couldn't put it down once I started reading. Even though the book is Christian based the author places the religion so that no matter what religion you are it makes sense. I, being an atheist, even found the references to a higher power very well placed and not over powering. Ms. Raffa makes many connections to the psychology of women and that women and men are very psychologically different. Somthing I find a lot of authors don't do. If you are a women in need of finding yourself this book is a very good reference guide with visualisions and concepts that are easy to apply and grasp. I highly recommend this book, and have already passes it one to others.