The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: The Making of a Psychologist: 1 Book

The "Making of a Psychologist" covers the first half of the life of Dr. James Hillman who is considered by many as the world's foremost post-Jungian thinker. He is also considered the founder of archetypal psychology and is the author of more than twenty books including the number one best-selling title "The Soul's Code". We follow Hillman from his youth in the heyday of Atlantic City through post-war Paris and Dublin travels in Africa and Kashmir onward to Zurich and the Jung Institute which appointed him its first Director of Studies in 1960. This first of a two-volume authorized biography is the result of hundreds of hours of interviews with Hillman and others over a seven-year period "The Making of a Psychologist" examines how Hillman's unique psychology was forged through his life experiences and found its basis in the imagination aesthetics a return to the Greek pantheon and the importance of "soul-making." You can learn where Hillman started from and have a better understanding of the mind of one of the most brilliant psychologist's of the 20th century.Read More