Champion of the psyche and renegade therapist

James Hillman on Archetypal Psychotherapy & the Soulless Society

Revisioning psychotherapy because psychology is afraid of reality! And don’t some of us know this from having been harmed by those who were afraid.

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Therapy is set up to help the “disturbed.” Sometimes the psyche upsets us in order to allow us to go further…mental health care is thus misguided in that it tries to get rid of distress. We need to instead come to understand why the distress is there and work with it as guide and teacher. 

More posts that feature James Hillman on Beyond Meds:

• The whole world is sick….and you can’t put this right by having a good therapeutic dialogue…
• The right reaction to a symptom might be a welcoming rather than laments and demands for remedies
• On The Legacy Of Aging
• Why do we focus so intensely on our problems?
• Your personal daimon