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Howl in the Wilderness

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Howl in the Wilderness
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    We’ve Had 50 Years of Re-visioning Psychology & Therapy is Getting Even Worse (RVP50) | Scott Becker | HITW 211

    21/1/2026 | 2h 37 mins.
    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of James Hillman’s magnum opus Re-visioning Psychology, we’re hosting a series of conversations with depth psychologists from diverse backgrounds and broad scope of practice who have been profoundly influenced by the work of James Hillman.

    Howling with psychologist and writer Scott H. Becker about how James Hillman’s ideas can help us navigate our current crises with greater compassion and creativity, and what it means for GenXers like us to carry the blue fire of archetypal psychology into the future.

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    Scott Becker is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice and has worked as a therapist, clinical supervisor, adjunct professor, and administrator over the past 30 years at, among others, Notre Dame, the University of Oregon, the University of Rochester, and Michigan State University. He contributed the psychological commentary to the biography, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, and has edited and introduced Volume 7 of the Uniform Edition of Hillman’s writings, Inhuman Relations. His research interests include grief and loss, complex trauma, multiculturalism, nondualism, couples and family therapy, environmental issues, astrology, and psychophysics.

    Interlude music by William Johnson, “While You Were Sleeping”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAxfxA09yQ

    Tags: james hillman, re-visioning psychology, archetypal psychology, politics, carl jung, depth psychology, imagination, creativity, podcast
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    The Soulful Philosophy of James Hillman (RVP50) | Edward Casey | HITW 210

    14/1/2026 | 1h 18 mins.
    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of James Hillman’s magnum opus Re-visioning Psychology, we’re hosting a series of conversations with depth psychologists from diverse backgrounds and broad scope of practice who have been profoundly influenced by the work of James Hillman.

    Howling with writer, painter and philosopher Edward Casey about how his 40-year friendship with James Hillman led him to a philosophy that is rooted in the phenomenology of body, soul, imagination and place.

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    Professor Edward Casey, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, was the president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) from 2009-10, and he was chairman of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University for a decade. He works in aesthetics, philosophy of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory. He obtained his doctorate at Northwestern University in 1967 and has taught at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, The New School for Social Research, Emory University, and several other institutions. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University.

    His recent research includes investigations into place and space; landscape painting and maps as modes of representation; ethics and the other; feeling and emotion; philosophy of perception (with special attention to the role of the glance); the nature of edges.

    https://escasey.com

    References:
    Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard (elements)
    Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (smooth / striated spaces)
    Megan Craig & Edward S. Casey, Thinking in Transit
    Philosophical Intimations: Hillman, James, Casey, Edward S. Casey
    Immanuel Kant
    Toward an Archetypal Imagination, Ed Casey
    Henri Bergson
    Alfred North Whitehead
    A Terrible Love of War, James Hillman
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty
    Plants in Place by Edward S Casey, Michael Marder

    Interlude music by William Johnson, “While You Were Sleeping”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAxfxA09yQ

    Tags: james hillman, re-visioning psychology, archetypal psychology, politics, carl jung, depth psychology, imagination, creativity, podcast
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    Thinking with James Hillman about the Soul of the World (RVP50) | Michael Sipiora | HITW 209

    07/1/2026 | 1h 33 mins.
    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of James Hillman’s magnum opus Re-visioning Psychology, we’re hosting a series of conversations with depth psychologists from diverse backgrounds and broad scope of practice who have been profoundly influenced by the work of James Hillman.

    Howling with writer, teacher and depth psychotherapist Michael Sipiora about Hillman’s legacy and how the ideas in Re-visioning Psychology are relevant to the most critical issues of our time.

    Support the podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/howlinthewilderness
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    Writer, teacher and depth psychotherapist Michael P. Sipiora, PhD had an extensive academic career serving on the clinical psychology faculties of Duquesne University and Pacifica Graduate Institute. The author of numerous articles and book chapters in archetypal and phenomenological psychologies, he is also a licensed psychologist with a wide range of clinical experience in both private and community mental health settings. He currently practices psychotherapy and business consulting in Santa Barbara, California.

    https://www.psychologist-santa-barbara.com

    References:
    Psychological Citizenship and Democracy: The Political Relevance of Hillman’s Archetypal Psychology, Michael P. Sipiora (Spring Publications)

    Interlude music by William Johnson, “While You Were Sleeping”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAxfxA09yQ

    Tags: james hillman, re-visioning psychology, archetypal psychology, politics, carl jung, depth psychology, imagination, creativity, podcast
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    James Hillman’s Manifesto of Soul (RVP50) | Rick Tarnas | HITW 208

    31/12/2025 | 1h 53 mins.
    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of James Hillman’s magnum opus Re-visioning Psychology, we’re hosting a series of conversations with depth psychologists from diverse backgrounds and broad scope of practice who have been profoundly influenced by the work of James Hillman.

    Writer, teacher and archetypal astrologer Rick Tarnas discusses his 30 year relationship with James Hillman and the lasting impact of what Tarnas calls “Hillman’s Manifest of Soul” Re-visioning Psychology, published in 1975.

    Support the podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/howlinthewilderness
    Depth Counseling with Brian James: http://brianjames.ca
    Archetypal Men’s Coaching Program: http://brianjames.ca/fourinitiations
    Follow me on Instagram: http://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork
    HITW YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness
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    Richard Tarnas, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was the founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness department. During his thirty years there he taught courses in the history of ideas, depth psychology, archetypal cosmology, cultural history, and the evolution of consciousness.

    He has also frequently lectured on archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, and was formerly the director of programs and education at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern that is widely used in universities. His second book, Cosmos and Psyche, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network. He is a past president of the International Transpersonal Association and was a long-time member of the Board of Governors for the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.

    https://cosmosandpsyche.com

    References:
    James Hillman, Re-visioning Psychology (1975)
    J. Hillman, The Soul’s Code (1996)
    J. Hillman, On Senex Consciousness (Senex & Puer Uniform Edition #3)

    Interlude music by William Johnson, “While You Were Sleeping”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAxfxA09yQ

    Tags: james hillman, re-visioning psychology, archetypal psychology, animism, carl jung, depth psychology, imagination, creativity, astrology, podcast
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    50 Years of James Hillman’s Re-visioning Psychology (RVP50) | Benjamin Sells | HITW 207

    24/12/2025 | 1h 31 mins.
    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of James Hillman’s magnum opus Re-visioning Psychology, we’re hosting a series of conversations with depth psychologists from diverse backgrounds and broad scope of practice who have been profoundly influenced by the work of James Hillman.

    Writer and depth psychologist Ben Sells discusses the impact that Hillman’s ideas have had on his life and career over the past 50 years, and how they continue to inspire and inform his recent work on beauty, soul and aesthetic animism.

    * Support the podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/howlinthewilderness
    * Depth Counseling with Brian James: http://brianjames.ca
    * Archetypal Men’s Coaching Program: http://brianjames.ca/fourinitiations
    * Follow me on Instagram: http://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork
    * HITW YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness
    * Send a donation via PayPal: http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

    Benjamin Sells is a writer, psychotherapist, lawyer, and former mayor of Riverside, Illinois. He is also a sailing captain and owner of Chicago’s oldest sailing school. He has written nine books, including The Soul of the Law, one of the most important work-life balance books in the history of the legal profession, that was recently reissued in a special 20th anniversary edition. His latest book is Love’s Desire: Beauty, Love, Soul, and the Search for the Meaningless Life.

    For many years he wrote a widely praised syndicated column on psychological issues in the legal profession and has published many articles and essays on psychology, history, and cultural affairs. His collaboration with famed psychologist James Hillman on America: A Conversation with James Hillman and Ben Sells was honored with a Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Sells has lectured extensively both in the United States and abroad and is a repeat lecturer at the prestigious Eranos Roundtable in Ascona, Switzerland. He lives in Riverside, Illinois.

    https://benjaminsells.com

    Interlude music by William Johnson, “While You Were Sleeping” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAxfxA09yQ

    Tags: james hillman, archetypal psychology, animism, imagination, creativity, podcast

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Depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James has deep and insightful conversations with renegade artists, philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers who are working on the edge of dominant culture to recover and revive soul in people and the planet.Support the podcast and gain access to:• early release of new episodes• extended conversations• archive of the first 100 episodes• plus other exclusive member-only contentJoin the pack: patreon.com/howlinthewilderness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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