THE HERO WITHIN
In 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces', Joseph Campbell introduced readers to the significance of myth and archetype in understanding who we are and how we live our lives. Carol Pearson's best-selling 'The Hero Within' combines literature, anthropology, and psychology to clearly define, with insight and understanding, the six heroic archetypes that exist in all of us. This expanded edition features exercises designed to awaken and illuminate these archetypes so that we may make better sense of ourselves and our life-journeys.
Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., is the co-author of 'Who Am I This Time?' and 'The Female Hero in American and British Literature' and president of Meristem, a nonprofit organization that offers training in personal and professional growth.
"An excellent and useful book about the course our psychological development can take, with stages represented by common archetypes that most of us know…(Pearson's) is an evolutionary archetypal psychology"
JEAN SHINODA BOLEN, author of 'Goddesses in Everywoman' and 'Gods in Everyman'
"Gives us a vocabulary- Innocent, Orphan, Wanderer, Warrior, Martyr, Magician- to subsume a wide range of patterns of human relationships, both positive and negative. The results are remarkably insightful and self-revelatory…It is a joy to read."
JESSIE BERNARD, author of 'The Female World'
Anonymous
Posted December 12, 2001
This book makes sense of Carl Gustav Jung's insane rantings on archetypes. In case you didn't notice Mr. Jung was a complete nut. Ms. Pearson is not. She builds on Jung's brief stumble into lucidity by making practical, understandable and interesting applications of archetypes. A great read! Fun, entertaining, useful and informative. I found the test in the back of the book so much fun that I wrote a program to score the results of the test for my palm computer. I recommend this book to anyone who doesn¿t understand Jung, is a Jung enthusiast or just enjoys the art of wondering and discovering wonderful things about themselves and others. Thank you Ms. Pearson for a great book. -David Brown, Archetype: Jester.
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THE HERO WITHIN
In 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces', Joseph Campbell introduced readers to the significance of myth and archetype in understanding who we are and how we live our lives. Carol Pearson's best-selling 'The Hero Within' combines literature, anthropology, and psychology to clearly define, with insight and understanding, the six heroic archetypes that exist in all of us. This expanded edition features exercises designed to awaken and ...