Living Your Unlived Life Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the...Second Half of Life

by Johnson, Robert A.; Ruhl, Jerry

• ISBN13: 9781585425860
• ISBN10: 1585425869
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-04
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

We all carry a vast inventory of abandoned, unrealized, or underdeveloped talents. These do not just "go away" through underuse or by tossing them off. Instead they go underground and become troublesome - sometimes tormenting - as we grow older. In Living Your Unlived Life, using warmth, humour, and elegant simplicity, the renowned therapist Robert A. Johnson, writing with long-time collaborator and fellow Jungian psychologist Jerry M. Ruhl, helps us understand our own heritage of unlived life - and how it must be examined and transformed if we are to make peace with ourselves and others in middle age and beyond. The authors show how to: bull; identify those unfulfilled hopes, yearnings, or needs that have gone "underground" bull; discover how we unconsciously burden others - friends, spouses, co-workers - with our unlived hopes bull; create new life options and unlock hidden talents bull; transform fruitless fantasies or "silly" dreams into tools for inner growth bull; start truly living in the present moment

Author Biography

Robert A. Johnson has been arguably the most influential interpreter of Jungian psychology of our time. He is the author of the bestsellers We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love; Inner Work; and He: Understanding Masculine Psychology.

JERRY M. RUHL, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and a popular lecturer, as well as a former director of corporate communications at United Artists Entertainment. His previous books include Balancing Heaven and Earth and Contentment, both coauthored with Robert A. Johnson.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Realizing Our Full Promise and Potential	p. 1
Divided We Become As Up We Grow	p. 19
Midlife: The Call to Greater Wholeness	p. 43
Learning the Timeless Art of Being	p. 69
Symbolic Life: Curing Our One-sidedness	p. 81
Active Imagination: Talking Back to Ourselves	p. 107
Dreaming Our Dreams On	p. 139
Two Essential Archetypes for Maturity	p. 167
Uniting Life's Oppositions	p. 185
Returning Home and Knowing It for the First Time	p. 207
Notes	p. 237
Appendix	p. 244
Index	p. 252
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