The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, Vol. 1

By Liz Greene, Howard Sasportas, Sasportas

Greene and Sasportas focus on psychological complexes and astrological factors that encompass issues from childhood, including the stages of childhood, the parental marriage, subpersonalities and more. An important book helping those in the counseling process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00A2RE0RA
• ISBN13: 9780877286738
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

The development if the personality

Another great book by Liz Greene & Howard Sasportas. Absolutely vital information for any astrologer or those learning about astrology. It's not cook book astrology, more case history but highly insightful. Everyone should have this on their bed side tables.

Another Liz Greene gem

Here is a book that is chock full of information, taken from seminars that Liz and Howard conducted. It's this kind of presentation where you can pick up tidbits that you'll remember forever. It covers the parental marriage as indicated by the sun and the moon (and other factors that perhaps you didn't know to look at in those terms). It talks about early childhood and the unfolding personality expressed through progressions. There is a very interesting chapter about the archetypal images of the mythical creatures, Puer and Senex, which was entirely new to me. If you are interested in depth psychology as shown in the birth chart you must read and re-read this book. You will come away from it knowing yourself in a deeper way than before. I would recommend it to the intermediate or advanced astrology student. Excellent work!

Excellent, balanced, psychological astrology

A large number of psychological and astrological perspectives on real life are packed into this excellent volume by two giants of modern astrology, Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas. Many years after I first bought "The Development Of The Personality", I still dip into it now and again to re-discover a few truths and different takes on astrological and psychological interpretation. There is much food for deep thought here, with a large number of practical examples that keep the astrology and psychology alive. The book is based around the transcripts of four seminars, two each by Greene and Saportas. "The Stages Of Childhood" explores the relationship between early childhood experiences and the placements in the birth chart which predispose each us to interpret these experiences in a particular way. "The Parental Marriage In The Horoscope" looks at how individuals might deal with their astrological and psychological parental patterns. "Subpersonalities And Psychological Conflicts" examines six subpersonality structures and related conflicts e.g. part of us may be "the mystic" while another may be "the pragmatist". In "Puer and Senex", Liz Greene looks at personal creativity, contrasting the exciting possibilities of "the eternal youth" (puer) with the more worldly and practical "old man" (senex). Given the rather heavy nature of some of the material, many humorous comments and entertaining interchanges with the audience are a nice touch throughout this substantial volume.