From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0415922224
ISBN-13
9780415922227
eBay Product ID (ePID)
992257
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
564 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Maps of Meaning : the Architecture of Belief
Publication Year
1999
Subject
Psychotherapy / General, Faith, Mental Health
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology, Religion
Author
Jordan B. Peterson
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
98-037486
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"The book reflects its author's profound moral sense and vast erudition in areas ranging from clinical psychology to scripture and a good deal of personal soul-searching and experience...with patients who include prisoners, alcoholics and the mentally ill." -- Montreal Gazette "This is not a book to be abstracted and summarized. Rather it should be read at leisure...and employed as a stimulus and reference to expand one's own maps of meaning. I plan to return to Peterson's musings and mapping many times over the next few years." -- Am JPsychiatry "...a brilliant enlargement of our understanding of human motivation...a beautiful work." -- Sheldon H. White, Harvard University "...unique...a brilliant new synthesis of the meaning of mythologies and our human need to relate in story form the deep structure of our experiences." -- Keith Oatley, University of Toronto
Target Audience
College Audience
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
150/.1
Lc Classification Number
Bf175.5.A72p48 1999
Table of Content
Preface: Descensus ad Inferos 1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning 2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis Normal and RevolutionaryLife: Two Prosaic Stories Neuropsychological Function:The Nature of the Mind Mythological Representation:TheConstitutent Elements of Experience 3. Apprenticeship and Enculturation: Adoption of a Shared Map 4. The Appearance of Anomaly: Challenge to the Shared Map Introduction: The Paradigmatic Structure ofthe Known Particular Forms of Anomaly The Rise ofSelf-Reference, and the Permanent Contamination ofAnomaly with Death 5. The Hostile Brothers: Archetypes of Response to the Unknown Introduction:The Hero and the Adversary The Adversary: Emergence,Development and Representation Heroic Adaptation:Voluntary Reconstruction of the Map ofMeaning Conclusion: The Divinity of Interest