This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.
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Apr 12, 2008
Anne
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James Hillman is one of the most brilliant psychologists alive today. This is his classic on, well, revisioning psychology. Reading it was a viscerally psychological experience, kinda like his words actually reached into my brain and moved things around in there. He writes about psychology the way my favorite painters paint about painting; the language and the thing being discussed are one thing together. His subject matter is the restoration of the psyche (the Greek word for soul) back into
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Aug 13, 2009
Nikki Faith
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This book was absolutely fascinating. I'm not sure I've ever seen so much squeezed into 230 pages. I will not even begin to pretend that I can fully understand the full magnitude of this text after one reading. Hillman is doing many things here: revolutionizing how we look at psychology; defining the true meaning and aim of psychology; exemplifying depth psychology; analyzing the history and importance of Greece and the Renaissance; unraveling and dissecting what makes us human; illuminating
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Aug 09, 2011
Mary
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This is the essential Hillman book: radical, challenging, and very rewarding. It requires slow and thoughtful reading, probably multiple readings. There is too much to grasp in one go.
Feb 16, 2009
Anders
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An important book of Hillman's - I used it extensively for my MA thesis
Jan 29, 2012
Interessante in generale la prospettiva di Hillman del fare anima atraverso l'aspetto immaginale della psiche, cosicchè l'immaginale diventa il reale. Anche il suo rivolgersi all'alchimia e all'arte della memoria è di grande rilievo, soprattutto l'ultimo capitolo che gira intorno all'interpretazione neoplatonica e rinascimentale (Marsilio Ficino) dell'anima. Invece non condivido assolutamente le sue valorazioni rispetto alla psicologia umanistica e alle varie prassi spirituali come tecniche per
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Jun 06, 2008
Ramona
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A complex and provocative book that asks us to expand our ideas about the world of psychology. Hillman introduces new concepts dealing with the study of psychology and pushes us to re-examine how we engage this ever morphing discipline. It's not an easy read but very worthwhile for anyone interested in challenging the methods and principles found within this area of study.
Oct 24, 2008
Hillman has been rec'd time and time again as an innovative thinker in psychology...looking forward to learning his ideas!
Dec 30, 2007
Jfish938
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Awesome critiqute on current psychology as being too "human-centric"
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