We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse Quotes

“Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.”
― James Hillman, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse

“Marie-Louise von Franz says that Western civilization has put a little gnomish man on the shoulder of every woman and that this gnome does nothing but tell the woman that she’s wrong, wrong, wrong. Thus a kind of artificial, oppressive Watcher has been installed. When I mention this image to women (especially writer women) they enthusiastically agree with von Franz: that’s their experience, an almost literal voice buzzing in their ear saying, “No, no, your work’s no good, it’s worthless, you’re wrong.” In von Franz’s construct (though she’d use different terms), women have to learn to ignore that gnome and recognize their real Watcher, whom civilization did not put there and whom civilization cannot take away.”
― James Hillman, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy: And the World's Getting Worse

“The therapist as person who has finally got his shit together. But, Michael, what if the shit is not yours to begin with, nor your parents', but George Bush's shit—and by that I mean a vast systematic denial of what trulymatters to the heart and soul of us as citizens?”
― James Hillman, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse

“(too much info, keeping up), breakdowns and frustrations in the school systems, taxpaying, bureaucracy, hospitals, and making ends meet. You see, Michael, at last therapy is going to have to go out the door with the client, maybe even make home visits, or at least walk down the street. Jim”
― James Hillman, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy: And the World's Getting Worse

“You can leave a wife, but you can’t leave an exwife.”
― James Hillman, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy: And the World's Getting Worse