6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Life Changing Book, August 6, 2001
This review is from: World Weary Woman: Her Wound and Transformation (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts, 96) (Paperback)
It is one thing for a psychologist to study and identify a particular type of person; in this case, dutiful women with not enough time, who cloak their pain and loneliness with high achievement, and the admiration of others. (In short, the American ideal.)
It is another thing for the same psychologist to follow these women over a ten-year period, describing the changes that age, therapy and growth bring.
It is quite another thing for a writer to describe the meaning of the changes (and lack of change) that these women experience as they explore the emptiness they feel and the fearfulness they experience in attempting to grow into balanced (happy) persons.
Cara Barker has accomplished all three tasks exceedingly well, and in doing so has held up a mirror that women can use to identify ways to move out of the loneliness and pain of high achievement and over-work. For men, the mirror reveals what happens when he allows his fear of closeness to shut down the very nurturing and support his partner needs, as well as suggesting ways to deal with his own emptiness and lack of balance. Having been a psychotherapist for more than twenty years, I am particularly pleased with Cara Barker's sensitivity and obvious clinical skills which have provided me with dozens of ideas for working with "World Weary Women".
I have summarized this wonderful book with the following poem:
World Weary Woman
With no time to enjoy/ she wears the crysaline coat of duty/ cloaking her wounds/ with other's admiration./
Will the hurt open her heart/ to take the path of play?/
Or will she, hardened by/ her manly feats, refuse the taste/ of nurture's cup?/
© 2001 by Walter Vesper
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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a profoundly insightful and healing book, July 20, 2001
This review is from: World Weary Woman: Her Wound and Transformation (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts, 96) (Paperback)
Cara Barker reveals the true essence of women in this inspiring and deeply moving book about the experience of women in a society that has lost touch with the true nature of women. Here, through the experiences of other women, Dr. Barker lets us touch what we have lost--our true natures--and be healed by the revelation of what that nature is. Despite seemingly successful lives, so many of the women I know are dissatisfied, even despondent at times--myself included--and here in World Weary Woman is the explanation for this experience of life, and a path to reclaiming a richer, more real experience revealed. Through our losses and a sense of abandonment by this strange, demanding world in which we live we can find our way back to the creative force that exists in all women, and heal ourselves, Dr. Barker says, and I believe her. I am changed simply from reading this gentle yet powerful book for and about women. I plan to share it with all my friends.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This World Weary Woman likes what she reads, August 4, 2001
This review is from: World Weary Woman: Her Wound and Transformation (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts, 96) (Paperback)
Dr. Cara Barker has amazing insight into "Type A" women and the difficulities they face in their lives. This readable and personal book is a must for anyone wanting to move from an intellectual/mind oriented way of living to a more spiritual/feminine way.
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