Goddess Within: A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women's Lives - Softcover

Woolger, Roger J. J.; Woolger, Jennifer Barker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449902870 ISBN 13: 9780449902875

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1989

Synopsis

Gestalt and Jungian psychologists Jennifer and Roger Woolger have written a fascinating guide to the goddess qualities that live within us all. Learn how to navigate the turning points in your life by understanding which goddess type is coming to the fore. Wonderfully affirming, profound in its implications, THE GODDESS WITHIN helps restore the feminine to its rightful place in the modern consciousness and offers every woman the unique opportunity to learn more about her own power to transform herself.

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About the Author

Roger J. Woolger, PhD, (1944–2011) was a British-born Jungian analyst, regression therapist, and lecturer. Woolger held degrees from Oxford University and the University of London, as well as the C. G. Jung Institute in Switzerland. He is the author of Other Lives, Other Selves, a definitive work on past life therapy.

Jennifer Barker Woolger is a psychotherapist and teacher who has worked with women, teenagers, and children for many years. She is the author of Goddess Within: A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women's Lives.

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Jungian psychologists Jennifer and Roger Woolger have written a fascinating guide to the goddess qualities that live within us all. Learn how to navigate the turning points in your life by understanding which goddess type is coming to the fore. Wonderfully affirming, profound in its implications, THE GODDESS WITHIN helps restore the feminine to its rightful place in the modern consciousness and offers every woman the unique opportunity to learn more about her own power to transform herself.

Reviews

The authors, both psychologists, argue that the goddesses of ancient mythology represent eternal feminine qualities that should be recovered and honored. Emphasizing how the goddess archetypes can distort or enhance one's life, they then flesh out these archetypes with examples drawn from literature, film, and clinical practice. Because of tone rather than content, the result is difficult to recommend to libraries. For while the stated purpose is to create greater understanding and empathy for the feminine in our culture, that purpose is undermined by the authors' use of culturally loaded vocabulary. Libraries will serve their readers better by purchasing Jean Shinoda Bolen's Goddesses in Everywoman (Harper, 1984), which covers the same material in a more sympathetic manner.
- Lucy Patrick, Florida State Univ. Lib., Tallahassee
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449902870
• ISBN 13: 9780449902875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496