Why Good People Do Bad Things
Understanding Our Darker Selves
$47.10
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
17 April 2008
Summary
Working with the Shadow is not working with evil, per se. It is working toward the possibility of greater wholeness. We will never experience healing until we can come to love our unlovable places, for they, too, ask love of us.
How is it that good people do bad things? Why is our personal story and our societal history so bloody, so repetitive, so injurious to self and others? How do we make sense of the discrepancies between who we think we are—or who we show to the outside world—ve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781592403417 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1592403417 |
| Author: | James Hollis |
| Publisher: | Gotham Books |
| Imprint: | Gotham Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 231g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 147mm x 18mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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Praise for Why Good People Do Bad Thingsand for James Hollis Hollis suggests that we can only become whole (and good) by acknowledging our Shadow and accepting that it
Praise for “Why Good People Do Bad Things” and for James Hollis
?Hollis suggests that we can only become whole (and good) by acknowledging our Shadow and accepting that it’s O K to have a dark side, as long as we never let it take control of who we are… . The difference between this book and most of the slick self-helpers is that Hollis has genuinely important, meaningful things to say.?
?“Booklist”
?Nourishing… . Like a master chef, James Hollis knows that good food for the soul cannot be ordered to go.?
?“The Plain Dealer”
About The Author
James Hollis
James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice and executive director of the C.G. Jung Educational Center of Houston. Educated at Manchester College, Drew University, and the Jung Institute in Zurich, he was a humanities professor for more than twenty years and is the author of ten previous books, including the best selling The Middle Passage- From Misery to Meaning at Midlife and The Eden Project- In Search of the Magical Other. Based in Houston, he lectures frequently throughout the country and worldwide.
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