tom o'brien's List: psychology

• • 8.00 re-evaluation counselling
• • 6.40 if you want to help somebody you have got yo bring yourself into this space noe

• James Hillman
• Hillman has been critical of the 20th century’s psychologies (e.g., biological psychology, behaviorism, cognitive psychology) that have adopted a natural scientific philosophy and praxis. Main criticisms include that they are reductive, materialistic, and literal; they are psychologies without psyche, without soul.
• Hillman sees the soul at work in imagination, in fantasy, in myth and in metaphor
• Hillman equates the psyche with the soul and seeks to set out a psychology based without shame in art and culture

  • a psychology with a basis in homeopathy - as in whitmont
• He also sees soul revealed in psychopathology, in the symptoms of psychological disorders.
• He stresses the importance of psychopathology to the human experience and replaces it out of a medical understanding into a poetic one

  • look at thomas moore
• he Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, outlines what he calls the 'acorn theory' of the soul. This theory states that each individual holds the potential for their unique possibilities inside themselves already, much as an acorn holds the pattern for an oak tree.

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