Reviews for Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction: An Archetypal Perspective

The average rating for Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction: An Archetypal Perspective based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-07 00:00:00 matthew johnson This book was about a million epiphanies for me. Sylvia writes with compassion and comes from a real place of a desire to help people. You can feel it as you read and it's not the same experience as reading some of the more self indulgent writers who think really highly of themselves and take liberties tooting their own horns. She seems equally sacrificially committed to seeking out her own mind-blowings as I feel - and because of this, I find her work very accessible. Her good intentions and insights have real ammunition in relevance and novelty, and because of this, her points really get across to the reader. Total hidden gem. Has affected me in deep ways. I was addicted to painkillers for 4 years and this book really helped me understand addiction in a way that other books could not, and I've read a few. I have now been clean for a year and half so far and have no fear of relapse whatsoever. Wrote this review because I can't believe a book of this quality has received so little attention!

Review # 2 was written on 2015-11-16 00:00:00 Mark Beckett It's difficult to assign a number value to 500 pages of mythical brain spaghetti. I'm not terribly familiar with Jungian analysis, so I was kind of picking up the relevant parts of what it means to be a therapist in that context as I went. I am pretty familiar with Maeve and the various legends surrounding her, and I appreciated the many places where the author prods my understanding of the mythology by looking at it from an unexpected angle. So, I came for the Celts and stayed for the addiction therapy advice. If only I remembered my dreams, I'd be interested to see whether the book's contents percolated through, heh. But I learned a good bit about the Jungian engagement with the founder of the 12 step program, and how the program approaches addiction from a religious perspective, and that was valuable.