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Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts #12)
"This book is about taking the head off an evil witch." A powerful study of the nature of the feminine in food rituals, dreams, mythology, body work, Christianity, sexuality, creativity and relationships.
Paperback, 204 pages
Published
December 28th 1982
by Inner City Books
(first published December 1982)
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I really love Marion Woodman. Her books, especially Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness changed my life. Her poetic, spiritual, feminist approach to spirituality and healing is unparalleled. Which is why this book breaks my heart. In this book she is tackling a serious issue - eating disorders in women. I started out hopeful, as I do think "an addiction to perfection" lies at the heart of so many of women's wounds. She starts with a "fact" that all "obe...more
This is a book I am re-reading. This book was a light to me these twenty years ago, illuminating the dynamics of addictive behavior within the frame work of the hunger to develop psychilcally and spiritually. A great resource.
It probably isn't quite fair to give a book four stars rather than five simply because I couldn't understand all of it, but that's what I'm doing. I think if I read it again, I would absorb more of it, partly because there's so much there and it takes a while to percolate and make sense to me, and partly because I had very little exposure to Jungian psychology before reading this book, so the language was a little inaccessible to me at first.
Some of the take-home messages I got from Addiction to...more
Some of the take-home messages I got from Addiction to...more
I've read most of Woodman's books since February of this year--she's writing right where I am in my journey--integrating matter with mind, soul with spirit, earth with heaven, body with head. ALL of her books are 5-stars. She's a gifted teacher.
This woman has an experience with and understanding of all sorts of addictions that afflict people in this age. And what are the roots of it in our society. I used it over and over in private psychotherapy practice.
Haunting; splendid; beautiful. Woodman is an absolute genius. A modern master of the Jungians' dark poetry.
Brilliant, mind-boggling, life-changing! A Jungian scholar whose wisdom plumbs the depths of my soul.
Nov 17, 2009
Barbara
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Remarkable author who's work shaped many of my earliest insights on feminism and Jungian therapy.
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Aug 07, 2012
Rain
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brilliant!
this book is one to read slowly...and not for everyone! if you want to know more about the Jungian psychology and how it relates to: women, body image, perfectionism, dreams, and therapy, then this book is for you. Otherwise, it's full of rich text that I had to read many times more than once to digest it's richness. I have a feeling I will turn to this book many times in my work with clients, and more importantly in my own personal journey. Woodman is a diamond in the rough.
Never had the juice to actually finish this book. Just was getting into reading other things after two years in school. This an amazing book though about patriarchy, women, the significance of dreams and eating disorders from a depth psychological point of view. I'm not done yet, but this book is a must read for anyone working with clients with eating disorders in this modality.
BOOK FOR EVERYBODY WHO HAS BEEN EITHER HE IS ANOREXIC, ALCOHOLIC,WORKHOLIC, ADDICT OF PERFECTION..BOOK ABOUT DISHARMONY BEETWEN MAIL AND FEMALE PRINCIPLE IN BODY..JING/JAG EITHER ANIMA ANIMUS BY JUNG..
N.B. I AM READING SECOND TIME THIS BOOK AFTER MY FIGHT WITH ANOREXY..
N.B. I AM READING SECOND TIME THIS BOOK AFTER MY FIGHT WITH ANOREXY..
Might be difficult to read if unfamiliar with Jungian psychology. I really related to a lot of the ideas in the book about the roles of food and sex in society and for the individual in terms of personal development and withdrawing from wholeness.
Apr 26, 2007
Evie
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Anal retentive, Type A women...no, seriously, all women
Shelves:
psychology
OK, I'm a perfectionist, so much so that sometimes it gets in the way of my ability to create what I want to create. This book delves into the reasons why people like me are the way we are. This is essential reading for psycotherapists!
Disappointing - a subject that needs this authors wisdom, yet I felt it really lacked any substance :(
It's not Marion Goodman -- it is Woodman!
Jan 02, 2007
cynthia Clark
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Recommends it for:
female perfectionists
This is not light reading, but my therapist recommended it to me enough times that I finally read it. Very enlightening re: my personality and "issues."
If you read only one dense Jungian study of the archetypal roots of spiritual discontent, it must be Addiction to Perfection!
another art tehrapy read. hard to read though. but once you get through it, its interesting.
what an amazing psychological study...I respect, admire and devour Marion Woodman.
Jun 07, 2008
Becky
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I've never made it all the way through this book. But I probably need to.
The best study in understanding anorexia (and much more)
A must read
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Marion Woodman is a Canadian mythopoetic author and women's movement figure. She is a Jungian analyst trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. She is one of the most widely read authors on feminine psychology, focusing on psyche and soma. She is also an international lecturer and poet. Her collection of audio and visual lectures, correspondence, and manuscripts are housed at OPU...more
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