Suicide and the Soul

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Spring Publications, 1983 - Psychology - 191 pages
New Edition. A classic introduction to the experience of depth psychology - for analysts, patients and anyone having to meet questions of suicide. (Also available in German).

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Contents

Prefatory Note
10
The Viewpoints
24
Suicide and the Soul
38
Copyright

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About the author (1983)

James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1926. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years before joining the Navy's Hospital Corps in 1944. He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with a degree in mental and moral science from Trinity College in Dublin. In 1953, he moved to Zurich and enrolled at the C. G. Jung Institute. In 1959, he became the director of studies at the institute and stayed in that position for the next 10 years. He wrote over 20 books including Suicide and the Soul, Re-Visioning Psychology, and The Soul's Code. He died due to complications of bone cancer on October 27, 2011 at the age of 85.

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