James Hollis
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James Hollis | |
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| Occupations | Jungian psychoanalyst, writer; prev. lecturer in Humanities |
| Spouse | Jill Hollis |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | www |
James Hollis is an American Jungian psychoanalyst, author, and public speaker. He is based in Washington, D.C.[1][2]
Hollis was born in Springfield, Illinois. He graduated from Manchester College (now Manchester University) in Indiana in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and went on to obtain a PhD from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, in 1967.[1][3][4] For the first 26 years of his career, he taught Humanities at various colleges and universities, and between 1977 and 1982 he also trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich in Switzerland.[1][3][4][5]
Depth psychology understands that the goal of life is not happiness, which is only transiently possible anyhow, but meaning, which abides.
He was Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington (JSW) until 2019.[1][4] He also worked as a Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, as a Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation.[3][4]
He runs a private practice as a Jungian psychoanalyst and lives and works in Washington, D.C., with his wife Jill, an artist and retired therapist, with whom he has three living children and several grand-children.[1][3]
Works
Hollis has written seventeen books based on personal insights and his work in Jungian analytical psychology:[7]
- The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-Life (1993)
- Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men (1994)
- Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life (1995)
- Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places (1996)
- The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other (1998)
- The Archetypal Imagination (2000)
- Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path (2000)
- On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions (2003)
- Mythologems: Incarnations of the Invisible World (2004)
- Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life (2006)
- Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves (2007)
- What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life (2009)
- Through The Dark Wood: Finding Meaning In The Second Half of Life (2009)
- Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives (2013)
- Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey (2018)
- Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times (2020)
- The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves (2022)
- A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity (2023)
Interviews
- Vaughan, Alan G. (21 August 2014). "An Interview with James Hollis". Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. Taylor & Francis Online. 8 (3): 119–130. doi:10.1080/19342039.2014.930631.[8]
- Hollis, James (15 February 2018). "Living an Examined Life: The Book Brigade talks to Jungian analyst James Hollis, Ph.D". Psychology Today (Interview). Interviewed by The Book Brigade. Sussex Publishers.[9]
- Hollis, James (March 2018). "'Living More Fully In The Shadow of Mortality' & 'Living The Examined Life: Steps To The Recovery Of A Personal Journey'" (Interview). Interviewed by Constance Avery-Clark. Center for Jungian Studies of South Florida.[10]
- Hollis, James (29 December 2019). "An Interview With James Hollis". California Literary Review (Interview). Interviewed by Pat Dannenberg.[11]
- Hollis, James (18 June 2020). "Episode 116 - Finding Resilience: A Conversation with Jim Hollis". This Jungian Life (Audio podcast). Interviewed by Joseph R. Lee; Lisa Marchiano; Deborah Stewart.[12]
- Hollis, James (3 July 2020). "James Hollis Explores Healthier State of Mind Despite Media Overload - Variety". Variety (Interview). Interviewed by Steven Gaydos. Variety Media, LLC. (Penske Media Corporation).[13]
