Passages Beyond the Gate: A Jungian Approach to Understanding American Psychology - Couverture souple

Jennings, George-Harold

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ISBN 10 : 0761851631 ISBN 13 : 9780761851639

Editeur : University Press of America, 2010

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Book by Jennings GeorgeHarold

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Book Awards Recognition: Passages Beyond the Gate was the "First Runner-Up" in the Spiritual category, and a finalist for the Montaigne Medal in the 2011 Eric Hoffer Book Award competition. Examining American psychology's development from a Jungian perspective, Jennings argues that the discipline is at a point where a deeper and broader exploration of spirituality is essential in order to realize the goal of creating a complete psychology of human beings. Having already developed an understanding of the person that rests upon the tenets of behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, psychoanalytic, humanistic, and existential approaches, many mainstream American psychologists now seem eager to embrace a growing viewpoint of the person grounded in biological psychology, which draws the discipline closer to a materialistic understanding of human beings. This direction in American psychology reinforces a strikingly unbalanced viewpoint of human nature that does little to reveal the fullness and purpose of human spirituality. To address this deficiency, Jennings encourages more American psychologists to integrate spiritual concepts readily explored in transpersonal psychology with respect to our more traditional psychological understanding of what it means to be human.

Biographie de l'auteur :

George-Harold Jennings earned his Ph.D. in psychology at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., Jennings was a pre-doctoral fellow in clinical psychology at Yale School of Medicine. He is currently a member of the Department of Psychology and a staff psychologist at the McClintock Center for Counseling and Psychological Services at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0761851631
• ISBN 13: 9780761851639
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 58