Working with images : the theoretical base of archetypal psychology

Introduction - Benjamin Sells. Editorial postscript: Why "archetypal" psychology? - James Hillman. Psychology: monotheistic or polytheistic? - James Hillman. Exploration of the imaginal - Gilbert Durand. Mundus imaginalis, or the imaginary and the imaginal - Henry Corbin. An approach to the dream - Patricia Berry. Peaks and vales - James Hillman. On the neurosis of psychology or the third of the two - Wolfgang Giegerich. Musical therapy - Thomas Moore. Image-sense - James Hillman. Six approaches to the image in art therapy - Mary Watkins

'What began as a "Postscript" to the 1970 issue of the Spring Journal has in the past twenty-five years come to offer the most broad-ranging, radical, and serious alternative to modern ego-based psychology. Archetypal psychology challenges orthodox psychological thinking by replacing its humanistic and scientistic assumptions with a psychology founded in soul. Of the hundreds of psychological theories, only archetypal psychology has, from the beginning, insisted on a constant re-visioning of psychology's own ideas. Others argue ideology--archetypal psychology insists on a psychology guided by aesthetic concerns and polytheistic imaging. [The book] focuses on the theory and practice of archetypal psychology as set forth by some of its pioneering theoreticians and practitioners....[It] is an indispensable volume for all those who are drawn to the mystery of soul and imagination....'

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