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Steven Herrmann, a Jungian psychoanalyst and author of five previous books, has written a book with a depth and range of scholarship yet accessible and engaging to read. This book is a must for anyone interested in C. G. Jung or in William James and the history of psychology in America.Based on historical research and a nuanced reading of their works, Steven Herrmann elucidates their reflections on streamsof consciousness, psychophysics, pragmatism, pluralism, yoga, spiritual democracy, vocational dreams, synchronicity, transmarginal fields, and the Self. Doorways to the Self is not a mere metaphor but an invitation to recognize the living spiritual reality that exists in everyperson.From Jungian psychoanalyst and past President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP), Murray Stein: Steven Herrmann is one of those rare individuals who can brilliantly bring intellectual prowess and visionary depth together in a graceful dance of prose and poetry. In this work he presents the many cross-overs and parallels between two similarly gifted thinkers, C. G. Jung and William James. A comparative study of these two giants of modernity is long overdue, and Steven Herrmann is perfectly prepared to cover this match in all its splendor.

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Steven Herrmann PhD, MFT a Jungian literary critic and a scholar in the fields of American poetry, Jamesian pragmatism, analytical psychology, and spirituality. Dr. Herrmann has presented papers at the C. G. Jung Institutes of San Francisco, Chicago, and Zurich, and he has published five books that have been well received, nationally and internationally. His analytic research has focused on the subject of vocational dreams as doorways to the self, an idea that came to him while he was meandering through the hallways of Yale Divinity School, before delivering a talk entitled, C. G. Jung's Vision of Spiritual Democracy, during the Summer of 2015 at the same University, coincidentally, where William James and C. G. Jung both lectured. His interest in James began while he was a teaching assistant at the University of Santa Cruz, where he first read James's 1902 book The Varieties of Religious Experience. It is not theology, doctrine, or religious dogma that interests Steven most as an author, but similar to James and Jung, it is the phenomenology of spiritual experience, plain and simple: the pragmatic, analytic, scientific view of the psyche, and its self-path towards health, healing, wholeness, and human love. Steven Herrmann is also a Jungian analyst practicing in Oakland, California, and an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He has lived and worked in the Bay Area his whole life. Steven is the father of a son and a husband. He loves to garden, cook, hike, swim, run, write, and water redwood trees.

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