Between 1990 and 1996 a loose confederation of poets, analysts, and storytellers — Robert Bly, James Hillman, Martín Prechtel, and Michael Meade — conducted large residential gatherings in North America and Britain that proposed initiation, imagination, grief, and myth as remedies for a culture they judged to be soul-starved. This essay is a retrospective assessment of that movement by a...
Abstract This article presents a comprehensive academic exposition of the dissolving self within the therapeutic encounter, integrating Jewish mystical theology, psychodynamic theory, and contemporary neuroscience. Drawing upon the foundational work of Katzman, Bernstein, and Ponak on the authentic mystical self; Ungar-Sargon's theology of tzimtzum, Or HaGanuz, and sacred clinical space; and...