James Hollis, Ph.D., was born in Springfield, Illinois. He
graduated with an A.B. from Manchester College in 1962 and with
a Ph.D. from Drew University in 1967. He taught the Humanities
26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining
as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich,
Switzerland (1977-82). He is a licensed Jungian analyst in
private practice in Houston, Texas, where he is also Executive
Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston. He lives
with his wife Jill, an artist and therapist, and together they
have four adult children. He is a Senior Training Analyst for
the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was the first
Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is
vice-president of the Philemon Foundation, which is dedicated to
the publication of the complete works of Jung.
He has published eleven books with total sales well over
100,000 copies, the most recent being Finding Meaning in the
Second Half of Life (Gotham Books/Penguin). Various of these
books have already been translated into Russian, German, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, and Japanese.
selected books
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
(forthcoming, 2005, from Gotham Books, a division of Penguin)
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Mythologems: Incarnations of the Invisible World(Inner City Books, 2004)
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On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions(Inner City Books, 2003)
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other related websites
The website of James Hollis
http://www.jameshollis.net/welcome.htm