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Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 150.195
EAN: 9780415437776
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0415437776
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: July 25, 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge
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Editorial Review:In the quest for identity and healing, what belongs to the humanities and what to clinical psychology?
Ginette Paris uses cogent and passionate argument as well as stories from patients to teach us to accept that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. This is very hard to accept which is why, so often, the body has the painful and dispiriting job of showing us what our psyche refuses to see.In jargon-free language, the author describes her own story of taking a turn downwards and inwards in the search for a metaphorical personal 'death'. If this kind of mortality is not attended to, then more literal bodily ailments and actual death itself can result.Paris engages with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. At present, she demonstrates, what is happening is damaging to both science and imagination.
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Rating:  - WISDOM OF PSYCHE
I'm still reading the book, but I think it is presented in a different format. For example, the examples offered are written inside light grey boxes, which makes them more appealing to read.
Summing up, the book is interesting and touching
Rating: - Wisdom of the Psyche - a new page turns in Depth Psychology
It is a rare case in which we find a psychologist courageous enough to step forth with such intimate personal details in her efforts to help us bridge the gap to wholeness. But Ginette Paris is a teacher, as well as a psychologist, whose brush with death has led her to the wisdom of offering her own vulnerability as a gift to others. Accounts from patients and friends, letters to and from her brother, and the startling event of the confrontation with her own mortality are laced with analysis of ... Read More
Rating: - A Very Approachable, "Non-Jargon-filled" Approach
This is a brilliant portrayal of what depth psychology is, and an application of it in real life that calls for a new approach to psychology for all of us. Its true that I am a student of depth psychology, however, Paris' book is so approachable without jargon and intimidating or obscure references, that even those without a psychology background, can pick it up...but I caution you if you do...you will not want to put it down! It is absolutely gripping...a perfectly balanced weaving of multiple provocative ... Read More
Rating: - A rare book... so satisfying...
Review by Lyn Cowan Ph.D., analyst and author
Lyn Cowan is a Jungian analyst practicing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has served as Director of Training and then as President of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is the author of: "Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture" and of: "Masochism: A Jungian View". This review was written for the members of the International Association of Jungian Studies.
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Rating: - Matters of Great Consequence
I was going through a very difficult time in my life, when I read "Wisdom of the Psyche". Its insights, well . . . I don't know what I would have done without them. It was like being in a free fall without a parachute, and then a friend catches up to me, and then opens up, and hands me a canvas to grab onto and sail to safety with them to the ground. I am deeply grateful for Genette Paris' contribution to my life.
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