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Hollis trained as a jungian analyst at the jung institute of zurich. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the. From misery to meaning in midlife inner city books, toronto, 1993hollis is a psychologist and heads the jungian society in houston, texas. From misery to meaning in midlife and swamplands of the soul. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe will benefit by.
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