Stories We Need to Know
Author: Hunter, Allan G.
ISBN: 9781844091232
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 9 inches x 6 inches x 0.6 inches
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A combination of therapy and expertise in literature, this book explains the six archetypes derived from 4,000 years of literature and how they may guide unhappy people seeking meaning in their lives. Holding up the great books as the best way to understand these timeless story elements, the discussion devotes a chapter to each of the six archetypes: the innocent, the orphan, the pilgrim, the warrior-lover, the monarch pair, and the magician. Story structures are shown to be particularly suited to therapy with adolescents, many of whom have never stepped away from television and the shopping mall long enough to understand their unmet spiritual needs.
ISBN: 9781844091232
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 9 inches x 6 inches x 0.6 inches
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A combination of therapy and expertise in literature, this book explains the six archetypes derived from 4,000 years of literature and how they may guide unhappy people seeking meaning in their lives. Holding up the great books as the best way to understand these timeless story elements, the discussion devotes a chapter to each of the six archetypes: the innocent, the orphan, the pilgrim, the warrior-lover, the monarch pair, and the magician. Story structures are shown to be particularly suited to therapy with adolescents, many of whom have never stepped away from television and the shopping mall long enough to understand their unmet spiritual needs.
