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Howard McConeghey, an art educator, artist, and practicing art therapist, pioneered archetypal psychology in American art education. This book taps into the ancient notion that "perceiving is breathing." The soul is always "seeing" and making images, and images are a natural function of the psyche's eye. Images are thus the very breath of life and necessary for a vital soul.Five definite principles set forth how the natural eye and hand can be trusted to break through the constrictions of usual art "training," freeing the uniqueness of one's own vision and the soul's joy in expression. Illustrations of paintings from therapy and art history make visible the principles as one moves through the book. The foreword by Thomas Moore, author of "Care of the Soul" and "Soul Mates," derives from his friendship with McConeghey and from Moore's recognition of the importance of this book for both a soulful art and an artful soul.

Collected here are all of Patricia Berry's writings between 1972 and 1982, which together develop a style of psychotherapy that is based on the primacy of the image in psychical life. The book contains the often referred to but out-of-print essays "An Approach to the Dream" and "What's the Matter with Mother?" as well as newer papers. The style poetically concrete, the insights bolstered by clinical example, dream interpretation, and mythical references, each paper revisions an important analytic construct-reductions, dream, defense, telos or goal, reflection, shadow-so that it more adequately and sensitively echoes the poetic basis of the mind. One of the best available introductions to the fresh ideas now enlivening the practice of Jungian analysis. Of special interest to psychotherapists and to all concerned with myth, dream, and feminine studies.This newly revised third edition includes a text written in honor of James Hillman: "Rules of Thumb Toward an Archetypal Psychology Practice."

Organizing data from cultures the world over, Mircea Eliade, one ofthe preeminent interpreters of world religion in the twentieth century, lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entranceinto secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroicrites of passage. The vast information assembled here transcendsusual scholarship. Eliade always affirms the greater experience in allinitiation - the indissoluble tie between humans and the cosmos ofgods, spirits, animals, ancestors, and nature.As Michael Meade writes in his foreword, Eliade "fervently workedat keeping the doors of perception open to the world of sacred symbolsand creative ritual. Through his insistence that we are each thenecessary inheritors of a vast sacred heritage, he has acted as a spiritualelder and distant mentor to me and many students of myth andritual. Like an archeologist of symbols, he has unearthed, preserved, and found new meanings in the rites of our ancestors."

Rosegarden and Labyrinth is one of the great education books of our time. Its focus upon ancient mazes, deep holes and open pits, islands, protective enclosures, and especially gardens opens the eye and heart to the power of unconscious beauty. It is also a story of personal discovery, which led one teacher to a richer and fuller conception of her profession and so of life.

Two world-renowned psychologists, Marie-Louise von Franz and James Hillman, give detailed accounts of C.G. Jung's personality types. In her essay, "The Inferior Function," Marie-Louise von Franz shows the inferior shadow side of each of the eight kinds of typical functioning, while James Hillman differentiates in his essay, "The Feeling Function," genuine feeling from look-alikes and substitutes. Both essays are a rich source of ideas for study and an enjoyable guide for self-discovery. Full of psychological insights into personal habits, temperaments, and character.