The Wild Man and the Broken Vessel Sussex, 1993: A Clinical-Theological Retrospective on Bly, Hillman, Prechtel, and Meade Thirty Years On.
Trends in General Medicine August 31, 2026 Ungar-Sargon MD PhD Julian
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...