Thresholds of Initiation

by Joseph L. Henderson

Book Overview

?Henderson?s careful, scholarly approach is displayed to good effect in this wide-ranging volume, which bears the stamp of his authority and contains the support of long experience. He develops the provocative theory that there is an archetype of initiation and has assembled comparative material brought into relation with dreams from patients to expound its implications.? ?Journal of Analytical Psychology

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819560618
• ISBN13: 9780819560612
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Wesleyan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thresholds of Initiation

I was happy to find this book by psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Joseph Henderson. Though published in 1967, it's still useful, particularly on dream images of death and re-birth (chapter VII and following.) He discusses levels of initiation. I'd known that the bear was a symbol of the feminine/Great Mother, but glad to learn more about it in the appendix, where he links bears and young girls' rites of passage to Athenia as well as Artemis. If you or your friends have dreamed of dancing bears, you might find it interesting.