The Soul's Code
In Search of Character and Calling

I was going to contact Dr. James Hillman and thank him for his wonderful book, and found that he died this past summer. I wish I would have read this book 20 years ago. It echoes many sentiments I have felt about my psychotherapy clients, the ones who were labeled "crazy" when they were simply follo......more

This is the book that I love giving away to my friends because I believe everybody should read it (I gave so many and still dont have my own copy). Contary to Western culture that believe we are product of genes/family or Eastern culture that says we are pre-destined by Karma, Hillman somehow combin......more

This was my second time reading the book (the first was probably when it first came out, some 15 years ago). As always, Hillman (whom I knew quite well) is contrarian and pungently critical of conventional psychotherapy and psychology. Hillman is in search of something more archaic and anarchic—a de......more

I give this sloppily written book two stars instead of one because I think Hillman's central idea is important. Many a physician and pharmacist would be wise to at least entertain this notion that there is more life than our luck-of-the-draw genes and environment. Perhaps we are who we are for some......more

Uno strizzacervelli che spara a zero contro gli strizzacervelli, anteponendo Platone al Prozac (o al Ritalin) è decisamente suggestivo. Tutta la pars destruens del libro, del resto, è affascinante, specialmente là dove si proclama che noi non siamo affatto vittime dei genitori (o della Madre, o dell'......more