Compass of the Soul: Archetypal Guides to a Fuller Life. This item is unavailable.Compass of the Soul: Archetypal Guides to a Fuller Life

In this groundbreaking work, author John Giannini offers an in-depth and often philosophical and autobiographical exploration of psychological type that seeks to reconcile type and archetype in Jung's original and subsequent works. Developing the larger implications of the functional couplings is one of Giannini's main objectives in Compass of the Soul. He posits that the couplings are the four archetypal modalities through which the Soul perceives and judges the outer and the inner worlds. These couplings, he writes, constitute the four directions of the type mandala, or, borrowing Jung's term, the Compass of the Soul.

"This book...gives rich review of theory and integrates the approaches of both analysts and type practitioners who interpret and implement Jung's theory in different ways. No one else has done such a valuable work...Early in our correspondence Giannini wrote that he had three main agenda in mind in writing this book;(a)developing the original archetypal nature of the types, especially the couplings;(b)bringing the analysts and MBTI communities to a better understanding of each other; and (c)adding to type theory more of the richness of Jungian thought that is often overlooked in MBTI writings, e.g. dreams, imaginations, literature. I believe the book is on target with all three. Mary McCaulley, PhD and co-founder with Isabel Briggs Myers of CAPT.