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Oct 28, 2011 · Oct. 27, 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...
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The profoundly influential analyst and theorist James Hillman died on Thursday at his home in Connecticut, at the age of 85. Hillman, who took the reins as director of the Jung Institute in Zurich prior to Jung's death, was the author more than 20 books, including the pathbreaking Revisioning Psychology and the best-selling The Soul's Code.
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.
James Hillman, who authored more than twenty-five books before his death at 86 in 2011, is considered the founder of archetypal psychology, an important post-Jungian school of thought. With Hillman’s authorization, Dick Russell has been working on his biography for more than seven years.
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.
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Nov 7, 2023 · The biography culminates with Hillman’s surprising discovery that his predecessor C.G. Jung’s Red Book presaged where he was seeking to move psychology. In his eighties, how Hillman faced physical failings and ultimately death serve as life lessons for anyone confronting their own mortality.
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Oct 27, 2011 · James Hillman (1926-2011) was an American psychologist. He served in the US Navy Hospital Corps from 1944 to 1946, after which he attended the Sorbonne in Paris, studying English Literature, and Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a degree in mental and moral science in 1950.