Jungian Psychology

Understanding Evil: A Psychotherapist’s Guide

Evil is a ubiquitous, persistent problem that causes enormous human suffering. Although human beings have struggled with evil since the dawn of our species, we seem to be no nearer to ending it. In this book, Lionel Corbett describes the complexity of the problem of evil, as well as many of our current approaches to […]

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Gleanings: Essays 1982-2006

Gleanings is a gathering of hitherto uncollected essays written by Christine Downing during the quarter century since the publication in 1981 of her seminal book, The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine. Many of the essays continue her exploration of Greek goddess traditions and other aspects of Greek mythology. Others grow out of her ongoing

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Gods in Our Midst: Mythological Images of the Masculine: A Woman’s View

In a remarkable series of books Christine Downing has given us “perfected” as well as ambivalent images of the great goddesses of classical antiquity. In her latest book she turns to the “gods in our midst,” the gods as they appear to women, and she shows how these energies and epiphanies embodied in male gods

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Mythopoetic Musings: 2007-2018

Mythopoetic Musings is a gathering of essays and reworked lectures written by Christine Downing during the years since the 2006 publication of her earlier collection Gleanings. Many represent returns to the themes and images, the stories and writers, that have played a central role in her writing and teaching since she began her scholarly career.

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Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love

“Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love makes a powerful statement about the realities of gay and lesbian psyche. A gay and lesbian psychic perspective may at first be startling, but once examined, it proves to be unforgettable.” -“The Advocate”

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Archetype of the Absolute: The Union of Opposites in Mysticism, Philosophy and Psychology

In Archetype of the Absolute: The Union of Opposites in Mysticism, Philosophy and Psychology, Sanford Drob traces the “problem of the opposites” in the history of ideas and develops the thesis that apparent oppositions in philosophy, including those that underlie competing paradigms in psychology, are complementary rather than contradictory. The doctrine’s of the complementarity and

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Psyche’s Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood

This work is an exploration of the ongoing significance of sister relationships throughout our lives, bringing together personal narrative with the illuminations provided by myth, fairy tale, and the depth psychological reflections of Freud, Jung, and their followers. The book suggests that an imaginal return to our relationship with the actual sister of our early

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Embrace of the Daimon: Healing Through the Subtle Energy Body

This ground-breaking book, written over a nine-year period, is the result of the author’s personal experience and her research into the literature of the daimonic imaginal realm of the archetypes—the land of the daimons, the source of creativity, the soul. People who have been in the grip of imaginal reality—or who have known people or

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The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine

In a series of chapters each focusing on a different goddess or mythical woman, Christine Downing traces her own path of individuation from maiden-daughter to mature woman. A therapist, university professor of religion, and former president of the American Academy of Religion, she writes what is essentially an autobiography with an inner focus on her

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Eros and Chaos: The Sacred Mysteries and Dark Shadows of Love

A provocative book that reminds us that our soul’s primary longing is for love and then explores that longing. Goodchild explains that our most important task is the growth of our consciousness and that this cannot be accomplished apart from an awareness of the complexities of love and its shadows. It takes the us into

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