Into the Blue: A Father's Flight and a Daughter's Return Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a fabulous book!
If you are a breathing human being, read this book, if you have lost touch with your humanity, read this book, if you are in touch with your humanity, read this book!
Susan is a very talented writer who writes from her heart, her gut and from her brilliance. Her descriptions alone are worth the purchase!
This marvelous story will make you cry real tears, laugh out loud (I did, even in public), and your life will be enriched with Susan's down to earth insight. This courageous heartfelt story is unique, but you will also find it to be your own. It will lift you up and you will be soaring in your own skies! And you will agree with Susan that hope is neither elusive nor imaginary.
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Fantasies of Flight Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is simply fascinating and is written very well!!! It is something that everyone could enjoy.

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Fantasies of Flight invigorates the field of personality psychology by challenging the contemporary academic view that individuals are best studied as carriers of traits.Daniel Ogilvie exchanges a heart-to-heart, case study approach to understanding human behavior for the current strategies of categorizing and comparing individuals according to their manifest traits. Ogilvie asks and endeavors to answer questions like 'What were the psychological conditions that led Sir James Barrie to create a character named Peter Pan?' and 'What were the dynamics behind the Marshall Herff Applewhite's conviction that a space ship, hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet, would rescue him and his Heaven's Gate followers after they enacted a mass suicide pact in 1997?'Answering these questions requires him to resurrect 'old' ways to think about personality and 'old' strategies for studying individuals one by one. Early in the book, Ogilvie reviews the history of why intensive case studies were discredited in psychology and describes how Sigmund Freud's psychobiographical account of Leonardo da Vinci's fascination with flight inadvertently abetted critics of psychoanalytic psychology.He then performs a partial psychobiography of James Barrie and the origins of Peter Pan, followed by an investigation of Carl Jung, who fashioned the collective unconscious to serve as humankind's link to eternity.Arguing that personality psychology needs to become less insular, Ogilvie integrates information from the disciplines of developmental psychology and neuroscience into a theory regarding the latent needs that both Barrie and Jung sought to satisfy.The theory, including its emphasis on the onset of self and consciousness, is then applied to an array of well-known and obscure individuals with ascensionistic inclinations.Well written and accessible, but complex and scholarly, this volume will restore interest in the investigation of people's inner lives.

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