For anyone experiencing extreme guilt, grief, loss, betrayal, doubt, loneliness, depression, despair, obsession, addiction, anger, fear, angst or anxiety. The book goes through every one of these topics in great detail. It explains their causes, symptoms, and ways of overcoming them. It explains the opportunity for growth that is inherent in our struggles, providing inspiration and hope when it is most needed. I will warn that the author uses some vocabulary that non-psychologists won't know. Just keep your dictionary handy.
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Life is a constant and cascading series of struggles large and small with the vicissitudes and setbacks of life. States of happiness and contentment are ephemeral and under constant erosion by states of guilt, grief, betrayal, doubt, depression, deprivation, anger, terror, and change. Swamplands Of The Soul: New Life In Dismal Places presents the Jungian perspective: By encompassing both the meadow and the bog, the goal of life is not happiness but meaning. And meaning, though it may not be all sunlight and blossoms, is nonetheless real. Swamplands Of The Soul explores the quicksands where we have all been entrapped from time to time. Swamplands Of The Soul lights a beacon by showing what these "quicksands" mean in terms of our individual journey through life and the engendering of soul. For as James Hollis maintains, it is precisely where we encounter the "gravitas" of life that we also uncover its purpose, its dignity and its deepest meaning. Thoughtful and reflective reading. -- Midwest Book Review
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James Hollis has a private analytic practice and is the executive director of the Jung Educational Center.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
This book brought me back from the depths of despair! I HIGHLY recommend it for anyone experiencing extreme guilt, grief, loss, betrayal, doubt, loneliness, depression, despair, obsession, addiction, anger, fear, angst or anxiety. The book goes through every one of these topics in great detail. It explains their causes, symptoms, and ways of overcoming them. It explains the opportunity for growth that is inherent in our struggles, providing inspiration and hope when it is most needed. I will warn that the author uses some vocabulary that non-psychologists won't know. Just keep your dictionary handy. It's well worth the effort.
48 of 51 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This is the latest of a wonderful series of small, warm,
wise books by Jungian analyst James Hollis. This one visits
the dark places of our soul that are far too often avoided
from fear or mere inattention. There is a poetry that runs
through Hollis' work that is rare in Jungian literature.
Perhaps it's there because he loves poetry himself so much
and quotes it extensively and aptly, but his own prose reads
like poetry, yet without sacrificing lucidity.
I can't imagine anyone not learning something from this and
other books by James Hollis.
wise books by Jungian analyst James Hollis. This one visits
the dark places of our soul that are far too often avoided
from fear or mere inattention. There is a poetry that runs
through Hollis' work that is rare in Jungian literature.
Perhaps it's there because he loves poetry himself so much
and quotes it extensively and aptly, but his own prose reads
like poetry, yet without sacrificing lucidity.
I can't imagine anyone not learning something from this and
other books by James Hollis.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those of us who struggle with uncommonly difficult fates -- and the attendant uncommonly difficult mother, father and other nearly autonomous swollen complexes -- James Hollis is among the few unsentimental Jungian analysts who writes with an integral awareness of object relations theory and the DSM and the paradoxes of individuation and an authentically lived life of integrity. "Consciousness broadens and enriches us, though it may be dearly paid for." Good case and dream studies and a discerning teacher. An unfortunately melodramatic title, but recommended.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Don't understand the Pricing
This is an amazing book by an amazing author. This book is available from the publisher, Inner City Books for $25.00 new. I don't understand this pricing.
Published 2 months ago by dpm
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Depression
Hollis' work on depression has made my journey easier, in that he has expressed to me the normalcy of depression, and leveled the playing field for those of us who suffer and those... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Teresa Brisbin
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Been in the Swamp
I found `Swamplands of the Soul' at a time when I was just starting to feel how lost I was in life. I didn't even know who Jung was nor did I have any idea about the why behind... Read more
Published 13 months ago by M. Longazel
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book fell apart
like another person reviewing, the book fell apart very soon after I began reading it. after spending $25 for a thin paperback, I would think the publishers would do better. Read more
Published 17 months ago by June Gusman
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Swamplands of the Soul Book
Use this book in a Master's program in spiritual counseling. Great book with lots of insight on dealing with different situtions. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Lebby
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Swamplands of the Soul
I recently attended a week-long workshop titled "The Enemy Within." This would have been an excellent book to have had with me. Read more
Published on October 26, 2010 by Terence J. Dowdy
1.0 out of 5 stars
Dismal.
If you want to immerse yourself in negativity, read this tome which purports to review the various kinds of bad feelings as Jung studied them. Read more
Published on September 1, 2009 by Eric W. Kritz
2.0 out of 5 stars
swamplands of the soul
Unfortunately, the book fell apart soon after getting it. A big chunk of the book became loose and fell out. Really, you should send me another copy. Read more
Published on August 1, 2009 by Elliot Royston
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the most helpful books I've ever read.
James Hollis has changed my life. His books show an incredible insight into the soul, and helped me become a person I really like. Read more
Published on March 3, 2009 by JerryCPP
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of his best
I have read a few of Dr. Hollis's books but this is the best so far. He tackles the deep psychological issues of life with clarity and erudition. Read more
Published on December 2, 2008 by Dr. John Laughlin
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