Soul Magic

Ayan’s evocative storytelling reveals a fascinating cultural and intellectual history of psychotherapy… Soul Magic invites us to reconsider the legendary figures who shaped our ‘talking cure’, as well as the ‘magic’ for our soul that we could expect from it – Julia Bueno, author of Everyone’s a Critic
A captivating insight into a century full of ideas, conflicts, and personal dramas. For anyone interested in psychology and its history, this book is a delightful read. Enriched with numerous historical images, it transports readers to a bygone century while entertainingly teaching the history of psychology * MDR Wissen *
A brilliant writer. He masterfully combines anecdote with analysis, characters and their theory * Tages-Anzeiger *
A really, really good storyteller… The fact that he tells the story so richly is precisely the great strength of this book * Deutschlandfunk Kultur *
It’s fascinating to read how all the forms of psychology that concern us today had their beginnings around a hundred years ago - even those expressed in self-help gurus, keynote speakers, and influencers * Galore *
It is extremely refreshing how Ayan, saturated with facts and biographical knowledge, goes against the grain of psychoanalysis. A salutary demystification that should give us food for thought even today * Frankfurter Neue Presse *
Engrossing, humane and intellectually ambitious, Soul Magic illuminates not only psychotherapy’s evolution, but the wider cultural and spiritual crises of the modern world * Irish Times *

Steve Ayan is a German psychologist, scientific journalist, and author. He studied psychology, literary translation, and science journalism in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Reading, and Naples. He is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Gehirn&Geist. His research specializes in consciousness research, moral psychology, and psychotherapy. Ayan lives in Heidelberg, Germany.

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