The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine
10 best books like The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine (Marion Woodman): The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine, Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, On Divination & Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance, Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women, Meeting the Madwoman: An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit, The Book of SHE: Your Heroine's Journey into the Heart of Feminine Power, Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life, The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine, Jung on Active Imagination
| Author | Nancy Qualls-Corbett |
| ISBN | 0919123317 |
The ancient connection between spirituality and passionate love has in modern times become lost to the depths of the unconscious, leaving a broad sense of dissatisfaction and boredom in relationships. When the Goddess of Love was still honored, the sacred prostitute was virgin in the original sense...
| Author | James Hollis |
| ISBN | 0919123805 |
This is my fourth Hollis book. Am I addicted? Possibly. The truth is, I have never found Jungian ideas so accessible or so relevant - that is until I read Hollis. I'm finding the framework of Jungian analysis such an enlightening tool to use when thinking about self and others. This book is a slim book but...
| Author | Anne Baring |
| ISBN | 0140192921 |
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when,...
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 0919123023 |
I love reading anything by Marie-Louise von Franz. This book is transcribed from lectures looking at various divination methods from a psychological viewpoint, such as tarot, astrology, and the I Ching. The book also explores the workings of synchronicity, in contrast to, and in harmony with, modern...
| Author | Sylvia Brinton Perera |
| ISBN | 0919123058 |
This is one of the most important books written about the meaning of the Feminine and the importance of making the inner journey of descent in order to mature in individuate as a human being. Perera utilizes the myth of Innana/Ishtar's descent to visit her dark sister, Ereshkigal, to situate her discussion...
| Author | Linda Schierse Leonard |
| ISBN | 0553373188 |
The Madwoman is a powerful psychological and emotional energy that lives in us all--both men and women--and speaks to us all, inhabiting our dreams, our lives, our collective cultural memory. Ignored or suppressed, she becomes a force of self-destruction; acknowledged and understood, she becomes...
| Author | Sara Avant Stover |
| ISBN | 1608682897 |
Follow Your Heroine’s Journey to Reclaim Feminine Power and Wisdom
Women face many challenging transitions on the pilgrimage from girlhood through womanhood: menses, love and heartbreak, motherhood, menopause. Devoid of a central narrative, these rites of passage too often happen...
From the bestselling author of Forever Fifty comes a new collection of poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty. Judith Viorst's "decade" books of verse -- including It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty,...
The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0805057781 |
From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine. Bly and Woodman interpret the archetypal...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0691015767 |
All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C. G. Jung's early work on active imagination. Joan Chodorow here offers a collection of Jung's writings on active imagination, gathered together for the first time. Jung developed this concept between...
| 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...
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
| Author | Kim Chernin |
| ISBN | 0060925043 |
Pretty phenomenal read, fascinating for anybody in or near an eating disorder. Just recently finished this one and let me assure you, I had to read some sentences or paragraphs four or five times because I just needed to eat this shit up. NO PUN INTENDED. I absorbed this book and its messages. Very valuable...
Inner Gold: Understanding Psychological Projection
| Author | Robert A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0977333825 |
Only a handful of true spiritual elders come along in each generation and Robert A. Johnson is internationally acknowledged as a genuine wisdom keeper. He is one of the most influential interpreters of Jung, restating Jung's rich, complex theories with simplicity and grace. Here he shares his insights...
Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
| Author | Carol S. Pearson |
| ISBN | 0062506781 |
A program for activating and applying Pearson's twelve archetypes to aid inner development and the quest for wholeness"The heroic quest is about saying 'yes' to yourself and in so doing, becoming more fully alive and more effective in the world.... The quest is replete with dangers and pitfalls, but...
