Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience

In the quest for identity and healing, what belongs to the humanities and what to clinical psychology? Ginette Paris uses cogent and passionate argument as well as stories from patients to teach us to accept that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. This is very hard to accept which is why, so often, the body has the painful and dispiriting job of showing us what our psyche refuses to see.In jargon-free language, the author describes her own story of taking a turn downwards and inwards in the search for a metaphorical personal 'death'. If this kind of mortality is not attended to, then more literal bodily ailments and actual death itself can result.Paris engages with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. At present, she demonstrates, what is happening is damaging to both science and imagination.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Paris, Ginette

Mental Health

Routledge

This book has been reissued with a new preface as "Re-Ensouling Education: Essays on the Importance of the Humanities in Schooling the Soul."

The Soul Does Not Specialize: Revaluing the Humanities and the Polyvalent Imagination

Education & Teaching

Rowland, Susan

Romanyshyn, Robert

Selig, Jennifer Leigh

Slattery, Dennis Patrick

Aizenstat, Stephen A.

Zolbrod, Paul

Evans, Kathryn LeFevers

Hale, Cynthia Anne

Galindo, Nancy

Schools & Teaching

Mandorla Books

The gift of grace, coming to us as beauty, cannot be ordered or owned, only acknowledged and served. When events take on a mythical dimension and reverberate in the soul, then we feel grace. The three images of divinity guiding this book express the often unconscious pagan grace present in our daily lives. With this book, Ginette Paris continues the work of Pagan Meditations in reviving individual, cultural, and social life by reawakening their archetypal roots.

Pagan Grace: Dionysos, Hermes, and Goddess Memory in Daily Life

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Spring Publications

This book is Paris's contribution to "imaginative" feminism.

Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia

With this book Paris continues the work of PAGAN MEDITATIONS in reviving individual, cultural, and social life by reawakening their archetypal roots.

Pagan Grace: Dionysus, Hermes and Goddess Memory in Daily Life

Issues of life and death, love and responsibility are at the core of every religion. That is why the English translation of this book was originally published with the title "The Sacrament of Abortion," as it shows that the decision to abort may also spring from a religious feeling that it is the "right" thing to do, both physically and spiritually. As Ginette Paris writes, "Abortion is about love, life, and death." Since its original publication, the book has ben widely used in abortion clinics in Canada and in France and has even been given by some doctors to each and every women who had the procedure, along with pain killers.

The Sacrament of Abortion

Issues of life and death, love and responsibility are at the core of every religion. That is why the English translation of this book was originally published with the title THE SACRAMENT OF ABORTION, as it shows that the decision to abort may also spring from a religious feeling that it is the "right" thing to do, both physically and spiritually: "Abortion is about love, life, and death."

The Psychology of Abortion

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

This book is Ginette Paris’s contribution to “imaginative” feminism.\nAm I a feminist? Yes, for sure, and this book is my contribution to imaginative feminism. Each goddess is an inspiration for a different feminism, and collectively they teach us about the polytheistic complexity we need to get out of the twentieth century: more complexity and fewer complexes ... As a social psychologist, I see archetypal psychology as the best way to prevent dogmatism and ideological violence. It addresses both the meditative interior of each person and the community of culture. From both these domains, the “pagan” goddesses—especially Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia—have been excluded for almost two thousand years. 
—Ginette Paris

Wisdom of the Psyche

The first edition of Wisdom of the Psyche engaged with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. In this revised edition, Ginette Paris re-focuses her attention on the modern lack of desire to become adult and updates the book with brand new neuroscientific research. Paris uses cogent and passionate argument, as well as stories from patients, to demonstrate that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. She makes clear that the way out of those destructive states does not start with an upward, positive, wilful effort of the ego, but with an opening of the imagination, and aims to foster the dialogue between psychotherapists and neuroscientists. In clear and accessible language, Paris describes how depth psychology can be seen as a subject of the humanities rather than the sciences, and explains how gaining an understanding of neuroscience will not necessarily make us psychologically wiser. A unique and powerful book, Wisdom of the Psyche will be fascinating reading for Jungian and depth psychologists, psychotherapists, analysts and others in the helping professions, as well as students and those in training, and readers with an interest in psychology and neuroscience who want to create an inner life worth living.

The first edition of Wisdom of the Psyche engaged with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. In this revised edition, Ginette Paris re-focuses her attention on the modern lack of desire to become adult and updates the book with brand new neuroscientific research. Paris uses cogent and passionate argument, as well as stories from patients, to demonstrate that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. She makes clear that the way out of those destructive states does not start with an upward, positive, wilful effort of the ego, but with an opening of the imagination, and aims to foster the dialogue between psychotherapists and neuroscientists. In clear and accessible language, Paris describes how depth psychology can be seen as a subject of the humanities rather than the sciences, and explains how gaining an understanding of neuroscience will not necessarily make us psychologically wiser. A unique and powerful book, Wisdom of the Psyche will be fascinating reading for Jungian and depth psychologists, psychotherapists, analysts and others in the helping professions, as well as students and those in training, and readers with an interest in psychology and neuroscience who want to create an inner life worth living.

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Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience

The Soul Does Not Specialize: Revaluing the Humanities and the Polyvalent Imagination

Pagan Grace: Dionysos, Hermes, and Goddess Memory in Daily Life

Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia

Pagan Grace: Dionysus, Hermes and Goddess Memory in Daily Life

The Sacrament of Abortion

The Psychology of Abortion

Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia

Wisdom of the Psyche

Wisdom of the Psyche