The severance of people from the natural world was, in Jung’s view, a disaster, and led to a loss of balance ‘on all levels’, cosmic and social isolation and psychic injury. He called it a loss of the ‘bush-soul’ and laid the responsibility at the feet of ‘more than a thousand years of Christian training’, which he saw as an attack on the natural

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Following in Jung’s footsteps, James Hillman (1926–2011) – an American psychologist who studied at and then was Director of Studies at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland – founded “archetypal psychology,” a post-Jungian approach rooted in the archetypal basis of psyche. Archetypal psychology focuses on the myriad fantasies and myths

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