This revised edition adds new neuroscience references, revisits the idea of wisdom and explores avoidance of adulthood in modern culture.
'Emotionally personal, immediately useful, surprisingly original, beautifully deep, this page-turning read also turns the page into a new century of psychology. What an achievement.' James Hillman, Pulitzer Nominee for Re-Visioning Psychology (HarperPerennial, 1992) and bestselling author of The Soul's Code (Random House, 1996)
'Once again Ginette Paris demonstrates that she is quite simply the most original and eloquent of all writers on contemporary depth psychology.' Michael Vannoy Adams, Jungian analyst and author of For Love of the Imagination (Routledge, 2014)
'Paris gently and powerfully embeds depth psychology in the humanities, making Wisdom of the Psyche essential reading for the twenty-first century. We are all the richer for it.' Susan Rowland, Chair of Engaged Humaities and the Creative Life, Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA, and author of The Ecocritical Psyche (Routledge, 2012)
'Every once in a rare while a book comes into one's hands that is so satisfying that it's hard to write about it without drenching every sentence in superlatives. This is such a book.'?- Lyn Cowan, Jungian analyst and author of Tracking the White Rabbit (Routledge, 2002)