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James Hillman (April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut.
As the founder of archetypal psychology — a school of thought aimed at "revisioning" or "reimagining" psychology — Hillman argued that the therapy business needs to evolve beyond reductionist "nature" and "nurture" theories of human development.
Considered to be the world’s foremost post-Jungian thinker, American-born James Hillman is author of The Soul’s Code (pub. 1997). In Volume One of an extensive biography, author Dick Russell uncovers the path that led to Hillman’s long career as a Jungian psychologist.
Oct 28, 2011 · James Hillman, a charismatic therapist and best-selling author whose theories about the psyche helped revive interest in the ideas of Carl Jung, animating the so-called men’s movement...
James Hillman has 240 books on Goodreads with 73517 ratings. James Hillman’s most popular book is The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling.
Jan 1, 2020 · James Hillman (1926–2011) was a trickster extraordinaire, the radical rethinker of post-Jungian psychology who challenged many cherished assumptions of psychology and religion and pointed the way to a bold new way of seeing psychology as a variety of religious experience.
James Hillman is the founder of a school of neo-Jungian thought called “archetypal psychology,” which I believe has some resonance with Buddhist ideas and practice. As Hillman says in the book Inter Views, “for me the task of psychology is to see through [the ego] and get around it.”.
Hillman’s deconstruction of psychological theory and his critique of humanistic psychology are considered against the background of several of his foundational ideas: the deepening of the soul, personification and the “world soul,” image, and myth as the language of the psyche, the function of narrative, honoring psychopathology, psychological p...
James Hillman - The Road, Re-Visioned. “The soul can become a reality again only when each of us has the courage to take it as the first reality in our own lives, to stand for it and not just ‘believe’ in it” (Hillman, cited in Russell, 2013, p. 497).
May 9, 2013 · Discover 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...
