RUTH MEYER

Ruth Meyer is an educator who was in the first cohort of women to study at an all male college at Oxford University. Since then she has gained 40 years experience traveling around the world teaching history and Jungian psychology to all levels from preschool to college. Heeding an overwhelming desire to bring the insights of Carl Jung and James Hillman into education, she sold her home in London to study for a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. Since then, she have expanded my teaching experience by leading teachers’ workshops and writing books on the need to bring soul and imagination into education.
Cover image with students in a classroom

RE-VISIONING EDUCATION
James Hillman in Theory and Practice

Second, revised edition 2022
Paperback original, 174 pages, $25
ISBN: 978-0-88214-960-8
E-book, $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-88214-962-2

James Hillman is widely regarded as the founder of Archetypal Psychology and a key figure in re-visioning Jungian thought. His book The Soul’s Code, published in 1996, could have revolutionized the ways we think about education. Instead, his radical ideas on the subject have remained unexplored, despite their potential for helping today’s therapists and educators to understand students’ behaviors. The reason for this oversight is that Hillman’s educational ideas are scattered as fragments throughout his published and unpublished writings, recorded lectures, and interviews. The purpose of this book by Ruth Meyer is to bring those fragments together into a coherent whole.
   Meyer explores and extends Hillman’s ideas, offering novel and liberating insights into the hidden, invisible, shadow nature of common student struggles within the walls of Western academic institutions.