Jung on Active Imagination
10 best books like Jung on Active Imagination (C.G. Jung): Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Tilly and the Bookwanderers, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche, Amatka, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears, Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
| Author | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
| ISBN | 0345409876 |
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller shows how women's...
Tilly and the Bookwanderers
| Author | Anna James |
| ISBN | 0008229864 |
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa debut from a uniquely talented author.
Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents' bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing...
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 1616960655 |
The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell.
Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the Six—children who were born deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell....
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0691017840 |
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life. Examining heroic myths in the light of modern psychology, it considers...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| ISBN | 0670785938 |
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche
This book is about the individual's journey to psychological wholeness, known in analytical psychology as the process of individuation. Edward Edinger traces the stages in this process and relates them to the search for meaning through encounters with symbolism in religion, myth, dreams, and art....
A surreal and shockingly original debut novel set in a dystopian world shaped by language--literally.
Vanja, a government worker, leaves her home city of Essre for the austere, wintry colony of Amatka on a research assignment. It takes some adjusting: people act differently in Amatka, and...
Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590306341 |
Best-seller Pema Chödrön draws on the Buddhist concept of shenpa to help us see how certain habits of mind tend to “hook” us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, and addiction. The good news is that once we start to recognize these patterns, they instantly begin to lose their...
Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1935209647 |
An exciting contribution to the growing trend of applying Buddhist practices to encourage wellness and balance mental health. Reconciliation focuses on mindful awareness of our emotions and offers concrete practices to restore damaged relationships through meditations and exercises to help...
No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1937006859 |
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. In No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration for transforming suffering and finding true joy. Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from...
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 0877739749 |
Fairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz uncovers some of the important lessons concealed in tales from around the world, drawing on the wealth of her knowledge of folklore,...
"Book One of The Warrior Series
Sun Tzu and Sun Pin's timeless strategic masterpieces are constantly analyzed and interpreted by leaders worldwide. For the first time ever, author D.E. Tarver explains the classic texts, The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Art of Warfare by Sun Pin, in plain English.
War...
| Author | Edward F. Edinger |
| ISBN | 0812690095 |
"Edinger has greatly enriched my understanding of psychology through the avenue of alchemy. No other contribution has been as helpful as this for revealing, in a word, the anatomy of the psyche and how it applies to where one is in his or her process. This is a significant amplification and extension...
| Author | Robert A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0062504312 |
Just excellent. Why did it take me so long to find this book? I've always admired Robert Johnson's memoir, BALANCING HEAVEN AND EARTH. This text should be required reading for anyone working with dreams or the imagination as part of their spiritual journey.
"In fact, no one "makes up" anything...
| Author | Erich Neumann |
| ISBN | 0691017727 |
s/t: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such as C.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and...
| Author | James Hillman |
| ISBN | 0060906820 |
A very strange and radical book, especially from a man who later achieved very mainstream success in his field with The Soul's Code. Hillman here tries to reverse our relationship to dreams inherited from Jung and Freud.
He says that these two titans were too prone to fish out dreams from the...
Alchemical Active Imagination
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 0877735891 |
Although alchemy is popularly regarded as the science that sought to transmute base physical matter, many of the medieval alchemists were more interested in developing a discipline that would lead to the psychological and spiritual transformation of the individual. C. G. Jung discovered in his...
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Bollingen)
| Author | Erich Neumann |
| ISBN | 0691097429 |
Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual...
The Origins and History of Consciousness
| Author | Erich Neumann |
| ISBN | 0691017611 |
The first of Erich Neumann's works to be translated into English, this eloquent book draws on a full range of world mythology to show that individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as has human consciousness as a whole. Neumann, one of Jung's most creative students...
| Author | Charles Eisenstein |
| ISBN | 1623172489 |
Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction
With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world...
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
| Author | Lisa Feldman Barrett |
| ISBN | 0544133315 |
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind.
Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this...
