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Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves

Name: Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves
Author: James Hollis
ISBN: 9781440639432

by James Hollis

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Now in paperback, a penetrating understanding of the discrepancies that lie between our professed values and our frequently destructive actions

How is it that good people do bad things? Why do otherwise ordinary people gamble, drink, embezzle company funds, become addicted to Internet porn, cheat on their spouse, or repeat the same destructive behaviors in relationships, at work, or in their habits? And, on a grander scale, how can we reconcile all of the pain and suffering present in the world?

In Why Good People Do Bad Things, James Hollis offers wisdom to help you acquire a new level of awareness to your daily actions and choices. Exploring the Shadow is important to our growth because it helps us repair inner fractures and explore what forces are working against us, and why. Hollis also looks at the larger picture of the Shadow at work in our culture—in history, religion, organizations, and corporations—in addition to its presence in our personal lives.

About the Author, James Hollis

James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice and executive director of the C.G. Jung Educational Center of Houston. Educated at Manchester College, Drew University, and the Jung Institute in Zurich, he was a humanities professor for more than twenty years and is the author of ten previous books, including the best selling The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning at Midlife and The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other. Based in Houston, he lectures frequently throughout the country and worldwide.

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You might think of this book as a more proactive, more introspective version of Why Bad Things Happen to Good People. In Why Good People Do Bad Things, Jungian analyst Dr. James Hollis asks readers to engage with their shadow side, the aspect of their personality that most of us work feverishly to ignore. As in his Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, he unfolds a healing message, not a PowerPoint action plan. A good choice for readers who favor a spiritual or holistic approach to life's problems.

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Hollis suggests that we can only become whole (and good) by acknowledging our Shadow and accepting that it's O K to have a dark side, as long as we never let it take control of who we are. . . . The difference between this book and most of the slick self-helpers is that Hollis has genuinely important, meaningful things to say.