James Hillman

"Plato and the Greeks called it "daimon," the Romans "genius," the Christians "guardian angel"; today we use terms such as "heart," "spirit," and "soul." For James Hillman it is the central and guiding force of his utterly unique and compelling "acorn theory," which proposes that each life is formed by a particular image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny, just as the mighty oak's destiny is written in the tiny acorn....

James Hillman is the father of Archetypal Psychology. This rare program focuses on The Senex and Puer in Jungian Psychotherapy with James Hillman. On April of 2010, Dr. James Hillman presented a weekend seminar in which he returned to a topic from his earlier days - Old and Young: Senex and Puer. These opposing yet complimentary archetypes have been cornerstones of Jungian psychology, but Hillman brought his examination of them squarely into the...

James Hillman is the father of Archetypal Psychology. This rare program focuses on Education, Imagination and Myth with James Hillman. The emergence of C.G. Jung's Red Book from years of storage in a Swiss vault has re-kindled interest in active imagination. This method of self-exploration involves actively engaging one's own imagination in dialogue, through writing, art, or the spoken word. In this 2.5 -hour streaming video program, James Hillman...

Hillman refers to the soul as “a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself”. The value of seeing beneath, between, and beyond to achieve new perspectives for learning, integration, transformation, and growth was a personal challenge for Hillman, who claimed depth psychology can be summed up in one excerpt from Heraclitus: “You could not discover the limits of the soul (psyche), even if you traveled...

James Hillman's essay "Going Bugs" is a classic exposition of the meaning of bugs in the human psyche. Hillman examines the role that bugs - insects and creepy-crawlies - play in dreams and how human reaction to them is symptomatic of larger concerns about animals and the natural world.

Recorded many years ago in New York City, the audio recording of this weekend workshop has been honed down to a steady stream of wisdom, inspiration and classic, never before released James Hillman . It will energize and challenge your world and life viewl James Hillman was the father of Archetypal Psychology. This field uses metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination. The psyche moves; but does...

James Hillman studied with the great Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in the 1950s and later became the first director of studies at the Jung Institute in Zurich. After returning to the United States in 1980, he taught at Yale, Syracuse, and the universities of Chicago and Dallas. They come from the environment, the cities, the economy, the racism. They come from architecture, school systems, capitalism, exploitation. They come from many places that...

James Hillman is the father of Archetypal Psychology. This rare program focuses on Art, Practice and Philosophy of Psychotherapy with James Hillman. "We are going back to basics, bypassing as best we can the contemporary flood of therapeutic theories and techniques. Psychotherapy rests upon neither a couch, nor an armchair, nor a stack of texts-but on a simple three-legged stool. First the skills that come from practical engagement with the psyche....