Books
Concept of the Goddess
This volume is an up-to-date, highly readable study of the female aspect of religion both in past and present mythologies. It explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many... (more)
Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy: A Ritual Approach
Ritual scholars note that rituals have powerful psychological, social and even biological effects, but these findings have not yet been integrated into the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry.... (more)
Gods in Everyman: Archetypes That Shape Men's Lives
The companion volume to Goddesses in Everywoman reveals the powerful inner patterns, or archetypes, that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships-offering a insights into Greek... (more)
The Sower and the Seed: Reflections on the Development of Consciousness
The Sower and the Seed explores the origins of consciousness from a mytho-psychological angle. The concept of immanence, a vast intelligence within the evolutionary process, provides the underlying... (more)
Dramatherapy with Myth and Fairytale: The Golden Stories of Sesame
Myths and fairytales are our rich heritage; a veritable feast of ancient wisdom passed down through the ages in the memorable form of stories. While almost any story will have deep meaning to some... (more)
The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying... (more)
The Grail, Arthur and his Knights: A Jungian Symbolic Reading
This book presents a broad and deep symbolic reading of the characters involved in the mythical Holy Grail. The author makes several correlations between symbolic readings of the text and the... (more)
Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction
From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly... (more)
Caduceus: A Physician's Quest for Healing
Dr. Don Mannerberg takes Jungian psychology a step beyond theory - he applies it to his life. Integrating the science of medicine with psychology and mythology, he transforms his knee surgery into a... (more)
The Mystic Mind: The Psychology of Medieval Mystics and Ascetics
A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval... (more)
Jung and the Jungians on Myth: An Introduction
The image is the key to understanding the Jungian approach to mythology and the basis for Jung's theory of the unconscious. Steven Walker explores the essential lines of thought in Jungian psychology... (more)
Eros and Chaos: the sacred mysteries and dark shadows of love
In this provocative new book, Veronica Goodchild radically challenges the reigning paradigm that couples chaos with order. She looks at love and its shadows through the lens of the mythologies that... (more)
A History of Religious Ideas: v. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysterieses
'No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about "primitive" and Oriental religions...Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and... (more)
Dionysus: Myth and Cult
This study of Dionysus ...is also a new theogony of Early Greece. - "Publishers Weekly". An original analysis ...of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus. - "Theology... (more)
The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
This comprehensively, profusely illustrated dictionary presents the feminist history and relevance of many common symbols of Western civilization. Features more than 750 entries organized according... (more)
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves
This is an illuminating, irresistible, and unique anthology of fairy tales written by some of the most notable writers of the Victorian period. Presented chronologically, the twenty-two tales in this... (more)
The Great Goddess: Reverence of the Divine Feminine From the Paleolithic to the Present
A study of the primordial figure of the Great Goddess and her continued worship through time as shown by the myths, shrines, and sanctuaries around the world that honor this powerful symbol of... (more)
Solomon and Sheba: Inner Marriage and Individuation
The story or archetype of Solomon and Sheba may be understood on several levels. It is a simple, splendid love story; it is also the story of the heart's journey toward individuation, a conjunction... (more)
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12... (more)
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols
In nearly 1500 entries, many of them strickingly and often surprisingly illustrated, J.C. Cooper has documented the history and evolution of symbols from pre-history to our own day. Lively,... (more)
Dictionary of Symbols
The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified. (more)
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm
Jack Zipes aims to disprove conventional wisdom regarding the origins of the Grimm fairy tales, which holds that the Grimms collected their tales from the oral tradition of peasants. He argues that... (more)
The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives
The author explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the... (more)