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Title: Queen Maeve and Her Lovers: A Celtic Archetype of Ecstacy, Addiction, and Healing by Sylvia Brinton Perera ISBN: 0-8290-5211-9 Publisher: Carrowmore Books Pub. Date: 06 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $39.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Celtic Understanding of Addiction and Healing
Comment: As a psychotherapist often working with the issues of addiction and recovery, I am always searching for a language that speaks to the individual client about this struggle. It is sometimes difficult to hear words that have become too familiar. Sylvia Brinton Perera has taken on the task of offering us another way to think about addiction, not as a substitute for AA, but as a model of an additional kind of support for healing. These old stories of Ireland and the great Irish goddess, Maeve, have much to teach us about the ancient hunger that is part of our modern struggle with addiction in its many forms. We come to a better understanding of that hunger and the belief that transformation or ecstasy is possible only through this drink, this food, this drug, this relationship, NOW. Through the many forms Queen Maeve takes in these legends, we come to appreciate her complexity. The stories are sometimes fierce, which helps us recognize the need for courage and helps us remember the possibility of finding our own. We come to a deeper respect for the complicated process of recovery and an awareness of what strengths might be necessary in achieving it. Ways to recognize and develop the figures representing those strengths within ourselves are clearly explained, so that we may (for example) call on the fierce warrior goddess to serve us in recovery, to stand guard as we attempt to walk that path. Ms. Perera, a Jungian psychoanalyst for many years, is generous with her sharing. She is willing to examine her own hungers, which helps us trust her as we recognize ours. This is not an easy book, but written with such an appealing combination of intellect and clarity that it entices the reader to continue. Her precise use of language, and the richness of her storytelling sometimes teaches us things in spite of our rational defenses, not unlike psychotherapy itself. There is a moving example of the hope this book offers when Perera is discussing the need to cultivate a more objective position, "rather than erupting wildly, disappearing into addictive behavior or shame, despair, and self-hate, the person prone to addiction can, as one man said, 'clear the space to begin to see and want my own life.'" (p.189). It is difficult to imagine a better guide on the challenging path of learning to want one's own life again.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perera makes Celtic mythology pschologically relevant
Comment: Even the most alert of readers has a difficult time deciphering the paratactic stories of Celtic Mythology. At times, it takes on an hallucinogenic quality, as if inspired by druidic forces. In this book-length study of Queen Maeve, Sylvia Perera accomplishes an heroic feat of her own. She takes a group of myths and tales associated with Queen Maeve and makes them accessible to the modern reader without sacrificing the complexity and nuance of their medieval sources. And then, as if that were not enough, she demonstrates how these stories give us an insight into those joint paradigms of intoxication and addiction. This is archetypal analysis at its best. And it is all very readable. This book is clearly a labor of love, and Ms. Perera's passion for the subject shows through in every chapter.
Rating: 5
Summary: connection between modern addiction and legend
Comment: C.G.Jung made the connection between "spirit" and addiction which became a foundation for modern day 12 step recovery programs. Sylvia Brinton Perera brings us up to date in her contemporary and insightful understanding of what it feels like to be an addict, the effects of addiction on the psyche, and addiction as an archetype.Through her telling of the stories connected to an"ancient addict", she grounds the behavior of that personality in a time-less testimony to this complex. This book is vitally important to both persons dealing with an addiction themselves and for the professionals who try to understand their addicted patients. For those who are searching for deeper connections and understandings of the literal tenets of recovery doctrine, the recovery literature...this book challenges the reader to embrace the old mysteries in the unscathing light of case histories. Maeve was a beguiling woman irresistible, fascinating and like addiction itself hypnotic. Like modern day addiction one could die in her arms. I keep this book close to my bed as a reminder and a guide.
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Title: Alcoholism and Women: The Background and the Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 11) by Jan Bauer ISBN: 0919123104 Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Dynamics of Symbols: Fundamentals of Jungian Psychotherapy by Verena Kast, Susan A. Schwarz ISBN: 0880642017 Publisher: Fromm International Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Abandoned Child Within: On Losing and Regaining Self-Worth by Kathrin Asper, Sharon E. Rooks ISBN: 0880642033 Publisher: Fromm Intl Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction: An Archetypal Perspective (Jung on the Hudson Book Series) by Sylvia Brinton Perera ISBN: 0892540575 Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Jung: A Feminist Revision by Susan Rowland ISBN: 0745625177 Publisher: Polity Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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