Kinds of Power - A Guide to Its Intelligent Uses (a Currency Book)

Hillman, James

ISBN 10: 0385489676 / ISBN 13: 9780385489676

Published by Doubleday Feb 1997, New York, 1997

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Bold insights into the forces shaping our lives, how to take charge of them. Bright tight crisp PB 1st. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4, 260 pp, index,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kinds of Power - A Guide to Its Intelligent Uses (a Currency Book)
• Publisher: Doubleday Feb 1997, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385489676
• ISBN 13: 9780385489676
• Binding: Trade PB in black/gold wraps.
• Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing.
• Condition: NearFine unmarked.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology, Sociology, Law

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Synopsis

In the boldest expose on the nature of power since  Machiavelli, celebrated Jungian therapist James  Hillman shows how the artful leader uses each of two  dozen kinds of power with finesse and subtlety.  Power, we often forget, has many faces, many  different expressions. "Empowerment," writes  best-selling Jungian analyst James Hillman,  "comes from understanding the widest spectrum of  possibilities for embracing power." If food  means only meat and potatoes, your body suffers from  your ignorance. When your idea of food expands, so  does your strength. So it is with power.  "James Hillman," says Robert Bly, "is the  most lively and original psychologist we have had  in America since William James." In  Kinds Of Power, Hillman addresses  himself for the first time to a subject of great  interest to business people. He gives much needed  substance to the subject by showing us a broad  experience of power, rooted in the body, the rnind, and the  emotions, rather than the customary narrow  interpretation that simply equates power with strength.  Hillman's "anatomy" of power explores  two dozen expressions of power every artful leader  must understand and use, including: the language of  power, control, influence, resistance, leadership,  prestige, authority, exhibitionism, charisma,  ambition, reputation, fearsomeness, tyranny, purism,  subtle power, growth, and efficiency.

About the Author

A world-renowned lecturer, teacher, author, Jungian analyst, and former director of the C. G. Jung Institute, James Hillman (1926–2011) was born in New Jersey and spent much of his life in Europe. He is the author of more than twenty books, translated into ten languages, including The Myth of Analysis and Reinventing Psychiatry, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.