Kinds of Power

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 William James." In??Kinds Of Power, Hillman addresses??himself for the first time to a subject of great??interest to business people. He gives much needed??substance to the subject by showing us a broad??experience of power, rooted in the body, the rnind, and the??emotions, rather than the customary narrow??interpretation that simply equates power with strength.??Hillman's "anatomy" of power explores??two dozen expressions of power every artful leader??must understand and use, including: the language of??power, control, influence, resistance, leadership,??prestige, authority, exhibitionism, charisma,??ambition, reputation, fearsomeness, tyranny, purism,??subtle power, growth, and efficiency.


From the Hardcover edition.

A world-renowned lecturer, teacher, author, Jungian analyst, and former director of the C. G. Jung Institute, James Hillman (1926–2011) was born in New Jersey and spent much of his life in Europe. He is the author of more than twenty books, translated into ten languages, including The Myth of Analysis and Reinventing Psychiatry, which was?nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.