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Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story is a both a theoretical as well as interactive book on the nature of personal myth. Its intention is to offer participants who wish to explore further the terms and structure of their personal myth over 80 writing meditations that are spread throughout 9 chapters in order to guide the readers-writers on a pilgrimage into the deepest layers of their personal myth. An added feature of the book are writing meditation responses from participants who have been part of the author's writing retreats in both the United States and Europe. Their power and authenticity attests to the strong desire and need of each of us to explore what myth guides us, what terms it does so within and what one can learn to become more conscious of those deep forces in the psyche that seek expression in all we do and are.

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Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., has been teaching for 42 years, the last 17 in the Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology and Depth Psychotherapy programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 18 books and over 300 essays on scholarly and cultural topics as well as book and film reviews that have appeared in books, magazine, journals and newspapers.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fisher King Press; First Edition (May 16, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1926715772
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1926715773
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.52 x 9.25 inches

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Dennis has taught for the past 45 years, beginning with Elementary Special Education, then high school, undergraduate and for the past 20 years, Mythological Study students as well as those in Depth Psychology, Depth Psychotherapy, Counseling and Clinical Psychology programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor, of 24 books including seven volumes of poetry, two with accompanying CDs; he also co-authored one novel. He has published over 200 articles on popular culture, mythology, psychology, cultural phenomena in book chapters, newspaper and magazine articles and on-line publications. As a result of writing this collection of essays on creativity with Jennifer and Deborah, Dennis has designed and now implemented a course on Creative Writing and Personal Myth, which he is currently teaching to second year Mythology students at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Expanding beyond the written word, Dennis took classes in mixing glazes and creating pottery both on the wheel and free-hand. For the past seven years in New Braunfels, Texas, he has taken formal acrylic painting classes and has recently completed his eleventh 16x20 painting. He is now creating paintings in water color. He has been a frequent guest on radio talk shows and has offered “riting” personal myth retreats across the United States, Canada, Ireland and Switzerland. He has the unique ability to speak to and connect with a wide variety of audiences, from young people to older participants interested in using writing and drawing to explore the mythology that moves within them and helps them to shape the person they are continually becoming. He has found that from a depth psychological and mythical perspective, people are fundamentally the same in their desires, feelings, wants, and aspirations. Tapping into those common human elements through writing has been most rewarding for him, allowing him to extend his boundaries beyond the classroom.

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Brett M

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This book can be a tough read (advanced concepts) but once you get used to it, the information and many writing meditations are truly life changing. If you are having trouble with finding your life path like I was, this is the book for you! At 30 years Old I finally have found my life’s course!

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Profoundly conceived, this gem of a book offers the reader a startling conception, that our life coheres as we remember and revisit the paths through which we've journeyed. All our life events—our joys, our losses— wind around until they return home with us in tow. Dennis' writing serves as a good teacher and a trustworthy guide.

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Katie Coones

Chock-full of writing exercises

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This workbook is a companion piece for the author's writing retreats. It is chock-full of exercises to expand the writer's concepts of myth and writing. Loosely based on the works of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung.

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This book is fabulous. I have to take a class from him! Yeah!

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Barbara Atkins

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Not Your Typical Writing Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 29, 2012

This is not your typical writing book. Dennis Patrick Slattery has no interest in telling you how to develop fictional characters, build an interesting and compelling plot, or write the perfect climax scene.

Rather, the goal of Riting Myth, Mythic Riting is to help you uncover your personal myth. Slattery defines myth as the "loom on which we weave the raw materials of daily experience into a coherent story," and "a mode of perceiving which may be more important to its health and growth than the subjects and objects of perception."

Drawing heavily on the writings of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, the book's nine chapters contain exercises for what Slattery calls "Mediations on Writing." These are not typical writing exercises. You probably don't want to do these on a computer; they are meant to be free-form, intuitive writing (which I don't believe most people can do on a computer). They delve deep into the reader/writer's psyche, with chapters on topics like Riting the Wounded Self, Riting Through the Embodied Self, and Riting the Spiritual Self.

I loved this book. I love the exercises; while I did only a few to try them out, I intend to buy a pretty journal and actually work through the entire book, to see what old wounds I can uncover that may need healing, to see what my Spirit may reveal about itself, to relearn how to write intuitively. (I've been so involved in writing The Storyteller's Bracelet and now beginning work on The Madam of Bodie, I haven't done any sort of journaling in many years.) I believe I will learn much about myself.

No, this is not your typical writing book. But I believe it is a book that can lead writers--whether you write fiction, poetry, or blog posts--to better understand themselves. And when you have that deep understanding, how can it not make you a better writer?

(The feds now wants books reviewers to reveal where they got their review books. I was given a review copy of Riting Myth, Mythic Writing by the publisher, Fisher King Press. I was not, nor have I ever been, compensated for my reviews.)

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M. R. Campbell

A guide to the discovery of your personal myth

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2012

"The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change." -- Joseph Campbell

Author Dennis Patrick Slattery's thesis in "Riting Myth Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story" is that myth is alive and well in everyone and that we can discover the metaphors, symbols and plots that encompass and shape our lives through meditative writing.

Myth, writes Slattery, "is a loom on which we weave the raw materials of daily experience into a coherent story," and it is also "a mode of perceiving which may be more important to its health and growth than the subjects and objects of perception."

Deeply influenced by the work of C. G. Jung, James Hillman and Joseph Campbell, Slattery brings a great deal of himself to this excellent guide about the story behind the curtain. With thirty-five years of experience in studying and teaching mythology and archetypal psychology, Slattery not only shares his personal explorations into his own myth, but the exercises and feedback from his mythic writing workshops.

The book's chapters explore mythic consciousness, engaging one's myth, the (w)riting self, aesthetic self, wounded self, embodied self, self as other, spiritual self and the patterned self. After a very accessible overview to each of these aspects of the self, the chapters follow with writing prompts, suggestions, and samples of other writers' responses.

Intuitive writers, including those who passionately include a great deal of their own personal stories in their fiction and nonfiction, will see at once the truth behind Slattery's thesis and approach. Years ago, author Richard M. Eastman said that every writer discovers his outlook while writing. But, as "Riting Myth Mythic Writing" clearly demonstrates, both writers and non-writers can discover more than that: from the depths of the unconscious, they can discover the truest stories of their lives.

Throughout his book, Dr. Slattery is a wise and compassionate guide, and his well-documented observations about myth and the process of self-discovery will in very practical terms lead participating readers through meditative writing exercises that will greatly enrich their concepts of self and self-worth.

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My review of Riting Myth, Mythic Writing is in the San Francisco Jung Institute's Journal of Culture And Psyche

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 25, 2013

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Don't miss Dennis Patrick Slattery's master contribution toward an applied Jungian psychotherapy.

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