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Finding Your Individual Path
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Steve Owens
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By:
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James Hollis
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Creating a Life is a powerful commentary on the importance of the examined life, illustrating how we may arrive at an understanding of our life choices and relationships by exploring our core complexes and personal history. With insight and compassion grounded in the humanist side of analytical psychology, Hollis elucidates the circuitous way of individuation. The text is deeply enriched by the inclusion of poems and excerpts from the works of many modern writers (including John Fowles, Rilke, D.H Lawrence, Thoreau, Pascal and Kierkegaard).
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Saturn was the Roman god, who ate his children to stop them from usurping his power. Men have been psychologically and spiritually wounded by this legacy. Hollis offers a rich perspective on the secrets men carry in their hearts.
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Masculinity = bad
- By untongue on 07-03-24
By: James Hollis
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The Best of James Hollis
- Wisdom for the Inner Journey
- By: James Hollis
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Best of James Hollis: Wisdom for the Inner Journey is a collection of excerpts from the writings of James Hollis, PhD, Jungian psychotherapist and author. These selections span across his body of work and are organized into different topics, ranging from the psychological concepts of Carl Jung to the everyday tasks of our living and callings. Hollis’ wisdom will challenge listeners to find their own path, to be who they are called to be, to take the risks to trust their soul, and thus live a life worthy of their unique gifts.
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Great way to review and revive
- By Amazon Customer on 02-28-22
By: James Hollis
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Living Between Worlds
- Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times
- By: James Hollis PhD
- Narrated by: Michael Cover
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology and classical thought.
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Interesting book, Woeful narration
- By Roger Morris on 07-01-20
By: James Hollis PhD
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Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
- By: James Hollis PhD
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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In Hauntings, James Hollis considers how we are all governed by the presence of invisible forms - spirits, ghosts, ancestral and parental influences, inner voices, dreams, impulses, untold stories, complexes, synchronicities, and mysteries - that move through us through history. He offers a way to understand them psychologically, examining the persistence of the past in influencing our present, conscious lives and noting that engagement with mystery is what life asks of each of us. From such engagements, a deeper, more thoughtful, more considered life may come.
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One of my favorites by Hollis
- By XiaoHu on 01-29-19
By: James Hollis PhD
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Why Good People Do Bad Things
- Understanding Our Darker Selves
- By: James Hollis PhD
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Exploring Jung’s concept of the Shadow, the unconscious parts of our self that contradict the image of the self we hope to project, Why Good People Do Bad Things guides you through all the ways in which many of our seemingly unexplainable behaviors are manifestations of the Shadow. In addition to its presence in our personal lives, Hollis looks at the larger picture of the Shadow at work in our culture. Accepting and examining the Shadow as part of one’s self, Hollis suggests, is the first step toward wholeness.
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One of Hollis's Best
- By Narmada on 12-04-18
By: James Hollis PhD
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Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
- By: James Hollis
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Prisms: Reflections on the Journey We Call Life summarizes a lifetime of observing, engaging, and exploring why we are here, in service to what, and what life asks of us. These 11 essays, all written recently, examine how we understand ourselves, and often we have to reframe that understanding, the nature and gift of comedy, the imagination, desire, as well as our encounters with narcissism, and aging. James Hollis explores the roadblocks we encounter and our on-going challenge to live our brief journey with as much courage, insight, and resolve as we can bring to the table.
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excellent
- By H.B. on 03-31-22
By: James Hollis
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The Archetypal Imagination
- Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology
- By: James Hollis PhD
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. He argues that without the human mind's ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality. Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers, Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an "other" world.
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Not like his other books
- By Walter on 01-29-14
By: James Hollis PhD
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She
- Understanding Feminine Psychology
- By: Robert A. Johnson
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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What does it mean to be a woman? What is the pathway to mature femininity? And what of the masculine components of a woman's personality? Robert A. Johnson explores these questions in this new edition of She, updated to reflect the growth of his thinking on these subjects.
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Psyche's Journey
- By Kirstin Strand on 09-04-21
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Trauma and the Soul
- A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development and Its Interruption
- By: Donald Kalsched
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
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In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including therapeutic dialogue and dreams, he shows how depth psychotherapy with trauma’s survivors can open both analytic partners to "another world" of non-ordinary reality in which daimonic powers reside, both light and dark.
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Reading voice is annoying
- By Leah Khaghani on 10-07-22
By: Donald Kalsched
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- Anonymous User
- 10-11-24
Poor performance, great book
Performance makes it difficult to follow along. The ideas themselves are great and the book is well written. Terrible performance.
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- Ahmed
- 01-18-25
thoughtful. provocative.
highly recommended for those who are concerned with what it means to live life fully beyond the rhetoric of ambition and self-esteem. For also those who are critical of “positive thinking.”
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