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Kinds of Power A Guide to Its Intelligent Uses

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ISBN-10: 0385489676

ISBN-13: 9780385489676

Edition: N/A

Authors: James Hillman

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In the boldest expose on the nature of power since  Machiavelli, celebrated Jungian therapist James  Hillman shows how the artful leader uses each of two  dozen kinds of power with finesse and subtlety.  Power, we often forget, has many faces, many  different expressions. "Empowerment," writes  best-selling Jungian analyst James Hillman,  "comes from understanding the widest spectrum of  possibilities for embracing power." If food  means only meat and potatoes, your body suffers from  your ignorance. When your idea of food expands, so  does your strength. So it is with power.  "James Hillman," says Robert Bly, "is the  most lively and original psychologist we have had  in America since…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1926. He attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years before joining the Navy's Hospital Corps in 1944. He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with a degree in mental and moral science from Trinity College in Dublin. In 1953, he moved to Zurich and enrolled at the C. G. Jung Institute. In 1959, he became the director of studies at the institute and stayed in that position for the next 10 years. He wrote over 20 books including Suicide and the Soul, Re-Visioning Psychology, and The Soul's Code. He died due to complications of bone cancer on October 27, 2011 at the…    

Opening the Book
The Changing Heroics of Power
Introduction
Efficiency
Growth
Service
Maintenance
Styles of Power
The Language of Power
Control
Office
Prestige
Exhibitionism
Ambition
Reputation
Influence
Resistance
Leadership
Concentration
Authority
Persuasion
Charisma
Rising
Decision
Fearsomeness
Tyranny
Veto
Purism
Subtle Power
Myths of Power--Power of Myths
Closing: On Power and Powers
Index