A noted Jungian phychotherapist tells inspiring stories of individuals who faced tremendous hardships, yet found renewed creativity and compassion as a result. In these lives the author finds patterns that illustrate not only basic Jungian principles, but also the teachings of the ancient Buddhist tradition, which was developed to deal with suffering in the world.
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Psychotherapist Young-Eisendrath (The Cambridge Companion to Jung, Morrow, 1993) combines insights of Jungian psychology and Buddhist meditation to fashion a reflection on the creativity of suffering and loss. Through the stories of several individuals who gained new perspectives on self and the world through a creative use of their suffering, Young-Eisendrath constructs a journey of resilience and renewal that involves compassion, Jungian alchemy, and selflessness. The author's meditations will appeal mostly to audiences already intimately familiar with the language of Jungian analysis and Buddhist spirituality. A marginal purchase.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Interesting look at suffering's transformative power,
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This review is from: The Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion, and Renewal (Hardcover)
In "The Gifts of Suffering," Jungian psychologist Polly Young-Eisendrath discusses the impact of suffering on both the child and adult psyche, with a special emphasis on resilience and transcending pain to find a deeper meaning. While the concept was very illuminating and interesting, the book suffers from a lack of focus. Part social criticism, part inspirational, part Buddhist history and theory, and part psychological theory, the book never seemed to quite come together. I wanted to hear more about how to develop resilience, what cultivates it. I also felt that Dr. Young-Eisendrath could have expanded the parameters of her research to include more than four individuals, interesting though those were, and perhaps made her language a bit more universal, and watered down some of her more critical opinions, which, in my opinion, detracted from the overall effect of her book.
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