Insearch

Originally a series of lectures connecting Jungian psychology and pastoral counseling, this book has since been used widely to introduce the psychology of soul to the helping professions. Four straightforward chapters move through the dilemmas of practice, deepening inward for reversing the gradual replacement of “soul” with its religious interiority by the colder objectivity of “psyche,” so as to return psychotherapy to its basic calling—the care of soul.
   As James Hillman writes in the postscript: “Why are we numb to the soul in things other than our selves? Why are we numb to speak to and with this soul out there? Is it really lost, or fiercely defended against? What investment has our culture in its locus only inside us, and is ‘search’ with all its collaterals like ‘journey,’ ‘trials,’ and ‘guides’ the right term for reestablishing connection? Might it not be far simpler just to step outside, or walk around your room, and do what the Psalmist said: ‘O taste and see.’ Soul is in, or is, the very first matter to hand.”