What does life ask of us, and how are we to answer that summons? Are we here just to propagate the species anew? Do any of us really believe that we are here to make money and then die? Does life matter, in the end, and if so, how, and in what fashion? What guiding intelligence weaves the threads of our individual biographies? What hauntings of the invisible world invigorate, animate, and direct the multiple narratives of daily life? In Hauntings, James Hollis considers how we are all governed by the presence of invisible forms-spirits, ghosts, ancestral and parental influences, inner voices,...

The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering presents a variety of
approaches to psychotherapeutic work with suffering people, from the perspectives of both Jungian and
psychoanalytic psychology. An important theme of the book is that suffering may be harmful or helpful to
the development of the personality. Our culture tends to assume that suffering is invariably negative or
pointless, but this is not necessarily so; suffering may be destructive, but it may lead to positive
developments such as enhanced empathy for others, wisdom, or...