Imaginal Figures In Everyday Life

<p><strong><em>Imaginal Figures in Everyday Life: Stories from Between the World of Matter and Mind</em></strong>                                                                          was recognized as an award-winning finalist in the “Health: Women's Health” category at the                                                                    2017 International Book Awards (IBA). </p><p>Mary Harrell unflinchingly greets a cast of imaginal figures who inhabit her life<br />and encourages all of us to welcome their wisdom into our own inner<br />landscapes. These very real beings dwell in a realm between matter (nature)<br />and mind (reason) appearing in dreams intuitive callings visions feelings<br />and sometimes frightening events. Mary offers her own intimate experiences<br />through which she explores and engages these figures showing her readers<br />how to host these beings as one would host invited guests. From the work of<br />philosopher Henry Corbin psychiatrist C. G. Jung and psychologist James<br />Hillman we know that the name of the realm in which these figures dwell is<br />the <em>mundus imaginalis</em> or the imaginal world. As this is a work in which<br />archetypes are grounded in experience <em><strong>Imaginal Figures In Everyday<br />Life: Stories from the World between Matter and Mind</strong></em> is both a path to<br />individual transformation and in the words of psychologist Robert<br />Romanyshyn "a therapy of culture."<br /><br />Mary Harrell Ph.D. a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and New York licensed<br />psychologist received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with Emphasis in Depth<br />Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria California. She is<br />Curriculum and Instruction Associate Professor Emeritus at State University of New<br />York (SUNY) at Oswego. While at the university she taught education and psychology<br />courses and served as Professional Development Schools (PDS) specialist supporting<br />the National PDS initiative which builds bridges between elementary and secondary<br />schools and the university's School of Education. Her writings in the areas of<br />educational reform and imaginal psychology appear in four invited chapters in<br />edited books. In 2014 Mary's poetry was anthologized in Syracuse<br />University's <em>The Stone Canoe a Journal of Arts Literature and Social Commentary<br />No. 8.</em> She lives with her husband Stephen in South Carolina.</p>