Poetic Obituaries: By the time he returned to the United States

in 1970s, Mr. [James] Hillman had adapted Jungian ideas into a model he called archetypal psychology, rooted in the aesthetic imagination. It was irresistible for many artists, poets, and musicians. The actress Helen Hunt, the composer and performer Meredith Monk, the actor Mark Rylance and John Densmore, the drummer for the Doors, were among his adherents, drawn in part by his force of personality, at once playful and commanding, generous and cunning.

"For all his Saturnine and Martial defense of psyche in our scientifically defined cosmos," Mr. Rylance wrote in a statement, "he is the most jovial person to sit with."

In the late 1980s, Mr. Hillman and two friends, the poet Robert Bly and the writer and storyteller Michael J. Meade, began leading conferences exploring male archetypes in myths, fairy tales and poems.

from The New York Times: James Hillman, Therapist in Men's Movement, Dies at 85

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