From Career to Calling

A Depth Psychology Guide to Soul-Making Work in Darkening Times
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-44451-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

Finalist in the Australian Career Book Award 2020, supported by the Royal Society of Arts Oceania

Finding and following an authentic calling challenges us to bridge both the intuitive, soulful and the hard-edged, material dimensions of everyday life. From Career to Calling: A Depth Psychology Guide to Soul-Making Work in Darkening Times opens new avenues for vocational exploration and career inquiry in an imaginative way.

This unique book draws on insights from the field of Jungian and archetypal psychology to reimagine our attitudes and approaches to work, money, vocational guidance and career development. As people find themselves disillusioned with or disenfranchised from capitalist notions of work and career, Suzanne Cremen’s interdisciplinary approach illuminates how a creative, meaningful and influential work-life can emerge from attending to the archetypal basis of experience. Interweaving elements of her own journey, Cremen connects individual experience with the collective in an original way, spotlighting depression in the legal profession, marginalization of the feminine principle in work environments, and how understanding the roots of our cultural complexes can spark personal callings which facilitate collective transformation.

Blending compelling real-life stories with robust scholarly analysis and reflective activities, this book will help practitioners to support individuals to develop a sense of their soul’s calling and offer guidance on creating an authentic vocational life within the constraints of the contemporary era. Additionally, it will be invaluable to those in career transition, re-discovering their purpose at the end of a career, or commencing work-life.

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cremen, Suzanne

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Berufe, Ausbildung, Karriereplanung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1: Job, Career, or Calling?; Chapter 2: A Very Brief History of Approaches to Vocational Guidance and Career Development; Chapter 3: Vocation as Soul’s Opus: A Symbolic Perspective; Chapter 4: A Short Interlude on the Relevance of Psychological Type; Chapter 5: A Jungian Understanding of the Psyche and Vocation; Chapter 6: The Abduction from Career to Calling; Chapter 7: Undercover Shamans at Work; Chapter 8: Loving our Fate so Deeply it Transforms into Destiny; Chapter 9: A Rough and Uncommonly Devious Footpath: Complexes as Pathways to Vocation; Chapter 10: Unfinished Business: Callings Arising from Ancestral and Cultural Wounds; Chapter 11: Money and the Dark Side of Vocation; Chapter 12: Living on the Edge Between Worlds; Glossary of Jungian Terms; Bibliography; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne Cremen worked in over 25 occupations including lawyer, screenwriter, conference producer, publisher and career counsellor before earning her PhD in depth psychology. She serves as faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute (USA) and founded the Life Artistry Centre for Archetype, Imagination and Vocation (Australia), where she teaches and consults.