James Hillman

Hillman was born in a hotel room in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in
1926. He served in the Hospital Corps of the US Navy from 1944–6
and as a news writer with the US Forces Network in Germany. After
the war he attended the Sorbonne in Paris and Trinity College, Dublin,
and established a private practice as an analyst. In 1959 he was
awarded his PhD by the University of Zurich, and for the following
decade worked at the Jung Institute in Zurich, developing the concept
of psychic ecology (later archetypal psychology), which places the individual
within a larger context of mythology, art, and ideas.
Hillman has lectured and held positions at Yale, Harvard, Syracuse,
Chicago, Princeton, and Dallas universities. Books include Suicide and
the Soul, Re-visioning Psychology, The Dream and the Underworld,
Healing Fiction, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the
World's Getting Worse (with M. Ventura), and The Force of Character
and the Lasting Life, exploring old age within a youth-driven culture.
He founded the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and is
involved with the Pacifica Graduate University in California. He lives in
Connecticut.