James Hollis

How do you define “growing up”? Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks—a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be?

James Hollis, Jungian analyst and author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Swamplands of the Soul, etc., guides readers to an understanding of those, um, “discrepancies” that lie between our professed values and our more habitual, often destructive, actions.

James Hollis is a Jungian analyst who writes books that lots of kinds of people actually read. His The Middle Passage: from Misery to Meaning and Swamplands of the Soul have offered useful insights to many.

Jungian analyst and teacher James Hollis, also author of What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life and a number of other books, here returns to writing, yet from another, more mysterious place.