Your Shadow [Paperback]

Robin Robertson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: A.R.E. Press (Association of Research & Enlig (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876043910
• ISBN-13: 978-0876043912
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #810,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robin Robertson has spent a life-time bridging the worlds of psychology, science, business and the arts. He's a clinical psychologist, university professor and writer who has published sixteen books and more than a hundred articles in either psychology or his hobby field of magic. He teaches psychology on-line to graduate level students as an Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before becoming a psychologist, he was a vice-president of software development for a large insurance company, and for the last twenty years, he's been a consultant to a multi-employer pension plan. He has separate undergraduate degrees in mathematics and English literature, as well as an M.A. in counseling psychology, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

Robin's books, often on Jungian psychology or the relationship between psychology and science, have gone through multiple printings, new editions, and foreign translations. Since 1986, he's been a writer, editor, columnist and editorial board member of the Jungian journal Psychological Perspectives (a beautiful journal that speaks not merely to specialists, but to everyone who loves Jung.)

He has also been heavily involved with the applications of chaos theory in psychology as a writer, editor, speaker, and officer of the "Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences." And, in more recent years, he's been a consulting editor and contributor for the cybernetics journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing (a journal that looks at deep issues about the nature of reality).

He is a life-time amateur magician, and a member of the Order of Merlin of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, who has published six magic books and many original effects, in recent years often collaborating with the clever Scottish magician, Peter Duffie.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book, October 3, 1997

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Allan L. Combs (Santa Rosa, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Shadow (Paperback)

This is a marvelous book of wisdom about the hidden side of human nature, told in a deceptively simple style through engaging stories, and illustrated by drawings that arrest our attention and add a new dimension to the text. Wonderful. --Allan Combs; author of "Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction / layman's guide to the Shadow!, October 13, 2003

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Robert Anderson (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Shadow (Paperback)

Concise, easy-to-read, and practical introduction / layman's guide to the Jungian concept of the Shadow self.

Robertson avoids the stuffy, technical writing so often found when reading about Jung's ideas, and instead presents the material in a very down-to-earth manner, - aimed squarely at the average reader.

And unlike other materials I've read on this topic, Robertson's purpose is to give the reader some practical ways that they can begin to acknowledge and re-integrate their Shadow.

Quick, worthwhile read!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb introduction to a troubling concept, October 23, 2007

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William Timothy Lukeman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Shadow (Paperback)

Robin Robertson has a real knack for explaining the complexities of Jungian psychology in a straightforward, even comfortably casual way, without ever dumbing it down. And in this slim but informative volume on the Shadow, he's in top form. Using vivid analogies, as well as experiences from his own life, he takes us into the depths of the Psyche & introduces us to the Shadow, the part of ourselves we tend to fear, deny, and project onto others rather than face outright. Not only that, but he makes clear that the Shadow isn't simply our "evil" side, but everything about ourselves that we've refused to acknowledge & accept -- including many positive things that can lead to personal growth, if we only have to courage to go through the darkest places to claim them.

The unfortunate cover might put some potential readers off, looking something less than slick & professional -- but isn't that what the prospect of facing the Shadow does anyway? We tend to judge by outer appearances too quickly sometimes, especially when we project our own fears outward. Just look a little more deeply within, and you'll discover that there's treasure to be found. Highly recommended!