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Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 12.)
: :Addiction to Perfection By Marion Woodman Through case studies, dreams, and myths, a Jungian analyst explores the hidden causes of compulsion in the lives of men and women. At the root of eating disorders, substance abuse, and other addictive and compulsive behaviors, Woodman sees a hunger for spiritual fulfillment. The need to experience a sacred connection to an energy greater than their own drives people to search for an illusory ideal of perfection. Through discussions of parenthood, creativity, and body image, this presentation shows that freedom from addiction can be found by ...
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Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity
: :A bestselling author of books on women's psychology explores the journey toward complete womanhood--'conscious femininity.' Woodman (Addiction to Perfection) demonstrates the striving of contemporary women for inner balance and wholeness in a patriarchal society that resists the process. 6 halftones.
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The Art of Dreaming: Tools for Creative Dream Work
: :Unlike other dream books, The Art of Dreaming inspires readers to play with their dreams across a range of media including painting, ceramics, dancing, mask making, and poetry. This approach integrates dreaming and creativity and leads readers through a fascinating process of self-exploration.
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Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul
: :In Coming Home to Myself, Jill Mellick has crafted selections from Marion Woodman’s writings into 365 daily meditations. With 32 watercolors as chapter openers, the book is organized by themes crucial to women seeking to free themselves from thoughts and behaviors impeding their spiritual progress. Review:The second printing of Coming Home to Myself revives a popular and noteworthy book that does indeed bring women home to a more intimate connection with their feminine selves. Not quite poetry and not quite prose, this collection of quotes offers a series of bite-size excerpts ...
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Dancing in the Flames
: :Dark, earthy, and immensely powerful, the Black Goddess has been a key force in world history, manifesting in images as diverse as the Indian goddess Kali and the Black Madonnas of medieval Europe. She embodies the energy of chaos and creativity, creation and destruction, death and rebirth. Images of Her, however, have been conspicuously missing in the Western world for centuries—until now, when awareness of the Goddess is re-arising in many spheres, from the women's movement to traditional religion, from the new discoveries of quantum physics to the dreams of ordinary men ...
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The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine
: :From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine. Bly and Woodman interpret the archetypal symbols embedded in an ancient Russian story, The Maiden King, a tale woven of an absent father, a possessive stepmother, a false tutor, and a young man over-whelmed by a beautiful maiden. When the young man's weak response to the maiden ss her retreating in anger, ...
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The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts, Vol 32)
: :From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine. Bly and Woodman interpret the archetypal symbols embedded in an ancient Russian story, The Maiden King, a tale woven of an absent father, a possessive stepmother, a false tutor, and a young man over-whelmed by a beautiful maiden. When the young man's weak response to the maiden ss her retreating in anger, ...
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The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine
: :The Way of Woman offers a distillation of Helen Luke's life's work as a writer, counselor, and Jungian therapist, a luminous, multifaceted reflection on the two questions that have long preoccupied her: Why do so many modern women feel so conflicted about their roles, so cutoff from sources of spiritual nourishment? More importantly, what can they do about it?.
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The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)
: :' The women who is a virgin, one in herself, does what she does not for power or out of the desire to please, but because what she does is true.' Here is writing with a thinking heart, blending art, literature, religion and extensive case material. Continues the author's pioneering work on the feminine in both women and men.
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Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts, Vol 41)
: :' The women who is a virgin, one in herself, does what she does not for power or out of the desire to please, but because what she does is true.' Here is writing with a thinking heart, blending art, literature, religion and extensive case material. Continues the author's pioneering work on the feminine in both women and men.
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