Re-Visioning Psychology

Simply genius. Took me ages to read as I had to stop and think (in a good way) about everything he was saying. The only downside was the relatively poor paper quality on this particular printing.

Hillman once again superb. There’s gold to be found in this book.

Much food for thought and relevance for today.

Book in good conditions as described.

Easy to read, explains Jurgen theories well

Revisioning is the title and this book is Hillman's opus major on his passionate sholarly and sophisticated twist on the psyche. As rich as Hades in treasures and a book that astounds on every page and takes you on a journey into a radical psychology that places imagination at its heart. The ideas propounded are complex and though written in the 70's, are still fresh and the implications have not yet, as far as I am aware, been imagined forward other than by Hillman himself, although others have responded and been enthused such as Thomas Moore. But hey, stay with the real McCoy. I love this book and each time I have ventured to take a breath and read it, be immersed in it I have been startled by the insight, the originality and the breadth of learning woven through every page. Should be a classic and a core text for any psychologically minded human anumal

Hillman is an excitable character, his writing on the subject is passionate and you end up taking deep breathes before re-entering the text. A Jungian thearpist, Hillman has a major issue with psycho-therapy, that it is internalising emotions and soul-less in its literature. 'The Modern vision of ourselves and the world has stultified our imaginations. It has fixed our view of personality (psychology), of insanity (psychopathology), of matter and objects (science), of the cosmos (metaphysics), and of the nature of the divine (theology). Moreover it has fixed the methods in all the fields so that they present a unified front against soul...What is needed is re-visioning, a fundamental shift of perspective out of that soulless predicament we call modern consciousness.' Hillman's quote is typical of his energy, the point is - he is right and needs to listened to - seriously - buy this book, you will learn an awful lot.