Sharing Robert's latest blog post where he discusses his perspective on the healing power of language:
From its origins the place of the poet in depth psychology has been and remains a haunting question. It is moreover a question whose importance is sharpened today by the APA initiative to define all psychology as a STEM discipline whose language would discard the humanities and shape the logos of soul— psychology—in terms of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
This question has been central to my own work. Beginning with my first book in 1982, which described the tension between the empirical language of psychology as a science and the metaphorical character of psychological life, through essays on the Orphic roots of Jung’s psychology and the poetic realism of phenomenology among others, up to the publication in 2014 of my new book, Leaning toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life, I have been exploring the characteristics of a poetic sensibility as a foundation for psychology as a discipline of soul making. In these explorations I have wandered with....
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