Why Good People Do Bad Things
Understanding Our Darker Selves
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Publisher Description
Working with the Shadow is not working with evil, per se. It is working toward the possibility of greater wholeness. We will never experience healing until we can come to love our unlovable places, for they, too, ask love of us.
How is it that good people do bad things? Why is our personal story and our societal history so bloody, so repetitive, so injurious to self and others?
How do we make sense of the discrepancies between who we think we are—or who we show to the outside world—versus our everyday behaviors? Why are otherwise ordinary people driven to addictions and compulsions, whether alcohol, drugs, food, shopping, infidelity, or the Internet? Why are interpersonal relationships so often filled with strife?
Exploring Jung’s concept of the Shadow—the unconscious parts of our self that contradict the image of the self we hope to project--Why Good People Do Bad Things guides you through all the ways in which many of our seemingly unexplainable behaviors are manifestations of the Shadow. In addition to its presence in our personal lives, Hollis looks at the larger picture of the Shadow at work in our culture—from organized religion to the suffering and injustice that abounds in our modern world. Accepting and examining the Shadow as part of one’s self, Hollis suggests, is the first step toward wholeness. Revealing a new way of understanding our darker selves, Hollis offers wisdom to help you to acquire a more conscious conduct of your life and bring a new level of awareness to your daily actions and choices.
Customer Reviews
Great read
This book presents a challenge in that it is written with lofty language. Unless you're an English major you'll do a lot of defining. I actually like this in a book because it expands vocabulary. The information is very useful and has the potential if applied to make major changes in your life.
Dr. Hollis is shining light in psychology
Anyone considering psychology as a career should seriously consider Jung studies at Saybrook with Dr. Hollis. Jung is a path to help others understand what we have shunned as a modern society: our respect for dreams and what our true self through our unconscious is trying to tell us....