Purchase Solution

Archetypal Psychology by James Hillman

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Briefly explain and elucidate, confirm & counter James Hillman's ideas.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

Archetypal Psychology by James Hillman is briefly summarized and validated with references.

Solution Preview

Welcome to BrainMass.com! We are delighted to help you.

As you explain and elucidate, you can define it as this ideology uses "mythical and poetic modes of discourse to inform our understanding of lived experience and behavior" (http://www.jfkjrinstitute.cuny.edu/programs/Hephaestus%20Power%20Point.pdf). As a cultural movement, you can explain how it embodies a re-vision of "psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy in terms of the Western cultural imaginationââ?¬Â? (www.vilaserena.com.br/fundamentos_documentos/spring1.doc). Hillman's use of soul as a perspective is quite riveting.

As you ...

Solution provided by:
Stacy Shaneyfelt, MA
Education
  • BS , Slippery Rock University
  • MA, Slippery Rock University
Recent Feedback
  • "thk u"
  • "Thank you. Posted one more.. if you are online pls help. "
  • "thk u"
  • "thk u"
  • "thnk you"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Role of Memory in Learning

This quiz addresses the role of memory in the learning process. The quiz differentiates between the different types of memory that facilitate learning.

Can you name these types of cognitive distortions?

In each mini-scenario, can you identify the type of cognitive distortion being displayed? All of us are subject to cognitive errors, biases, and distortions throughout our daily lives.

Brain and behaviour

Reviews areas of the brain involved in specific behaviours. This information is important for introductory psychology courses.

Emotional Intelligence: A Beginning

An introduction to an emerging branch of Psychology-Emotional Intelligence.

Theories of Work Motivation

This quiz tests the student's understanding of the major theories of work motivation from an organizational behavior perspective.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Analytical Psychological Theory

    Research also cites how it has "...been revisited and renamed archetypal psychology by a group of theorists led by James Hillman. It describes its main tenets and the process of individuation, which is central to Jungian thought.

  • Emotion and Motivation

    (as cited in Hillman, 1999, p. 8).

  • Schools of thought in psychology

    Despite this, aspersions continued to be cast by both sides. William James wrote that structuralism had "plenty of school, but no thought" (James, 1904), while Wilhelm Wundt dismissed functionalism as "literature."

  • Organization development

    A team based stricture will make my company more responsive and flexible (Hillman, O, 2011). References. Hillman, O, (2011), Change Agent: Engaging Your Passion to Be the One Who Makes a Difference, Charisma Media.

  • Ebbinghaus and James

    In Connections in the history and systems of psychology (pp. 211-216). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 4. James, W. (1950). The principles of psychology. New York: Dover Publications.

  • Importance of and brief history of cognitive psychology.

    Functionalism followed structuralism headed by William James who was critical of structuralism's way of only looking at consciousness at one point in time.

  • Leaders of Functionalism in American Psychology

    In fact, the great diversity of modern psychology reflects common vision that of this naturalistic "paradigm" inspired by William James and then nurtured by John Dewey, James Rowland Angell, Harvey Carr, and many others.

  • Appropriate Situations to Use Focus Groups

    The development of learning tools that will appeal to students' interests and needs (James, Rienzo, & Frazee, 1997); ?

  • Psychology history: structuralism, behaviorism approach

    James was highly influenced by Darwin's evolutionary theory that all characteristics of a species must serve some adaptive purpose.

View More Related Solutions