{"product_id":"images-of-hope-imagination-as-healer-of-the-hopeless-paperback","title":"Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam F. Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about hope. Part 1 is a compact but necessarily limited attempt to describe the actual structure and concrete forms of hope and hopelessness; Part 2 is an exploration of a psychology of hope, the beginning of an investigation of what psychic forms and dynamisms move most toward hope and against hopelessness; and Part 3 is an analogous effort to suggest the outlines of a metaphysics of hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImages of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, issued out of a harrowing personal experience of severe mental breakdown, [is] still a classic in the field of psychological healing. [The Reverend William F.] Lynch knew what it meant to rise from the dead. --\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"For those directly involved with the care of the mentally ill, Father Lynch offers many valid insights, including the fact that honest self-disclosure can be infinitely helpful to the patient who is mesmerized by a perfectionistic or independence ideal carried to its extreme. It is a thoughtful book from which emanates concern.\" --\u003ci\u003eJournal of Religion and Health\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"While [Lynch] is learned enough about the literature that my field (psychiatry) has accumulated during its brief history, scholarship alone cannot account for his remarkable effectiveness in this volume. So, I must begin with a statement, which because of its simplicity is difficult to make cleanly: Father Lynch is genuinely devoted to our calling. In fact, I suspect he is more devoted than many of its practitioners who tend, understandably, to be more quickly discouraged by its deficiencies. In these days of fashionable get-togethers between religion and psychiatry, I am impelled to add that he has no wish to proselytize or be proselytized. In other words, he is the rarest of human beings--the outsider who can speak as a friend.\" --\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is a book about hope. Part 1 is a compact but necessarily limited attempt to describe the actual structure and concrete forms of hope and hopelessness; Part 2 is an exploration of a \u003ci\u003epsychology of hope\u003c\/i\u003e, the beginning of an investigation of what psychic forms and dynamisms move most toward hope and against hopelessness; and Part 3 is an analogous effort to suggest the outlines of a metaphysics of hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Reverend William F. Lynch (1931-2003) was the author of nine books, including The Integrating Mind: An Exploration into Western Thought and The Image Industries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Reverend William F. Lynch (1931-2003) was the author of nine books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Integrating Mind: An Exploration into Western Thought\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Image Industries.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 7.93 x 5.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45305081102438,"sku":"9780268005375","price":63.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/YmZrSUdyNGZzVlJOWm9xQkp3ek1Jdz09.webp?v=1774047034","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/images-of-hope-imagination-as-healer-of-the-hopeless-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}