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: 9781585426997
• ISBN10: 1585426997
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-08
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

The esteemed Jungian psychologist counsels on how to cope with feelings of failure or regret in the latter half of life and how to open to a more meaningful existence, even if outer circumstances cannot be changed. In Living Your Unlived Life, the renowned therapist Robert A. Johnson, writing with longtime collaborator and fellow Jungian psychologist Jerry M. Ruhl, offers a simple but transformative premise: Our abandoned, unrealized, or underdeveloped talents, when they are not fully integrated into our lives, can become profoundly troublesome in midlife, leading us to depression, suddenly hating our spouses, our jobs, or even our lives. When our unlived lives are brought to consciousness, however, they can become the fuel that can propel us beyond our limitations—even if our outer circumstances cannot always be visibly altered.

Author Biography

ROBERT A. JOHNSON has been arguably the most influential interpreter of Jungian psychology of our time. Johnson-'s term -ôinner work-ö has entered the spiritual vocabulary of our era. 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.