Maps of Meaning

Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and University of Toronto Professor who previously worked at Harvard University. He has written numerous essays about drug addiction, drunkenness, and aggressiveness.

Why have individuals from various cultures and eras created myths and stories that have similar structures? What does this resemblance reveal about the mind, morals, and structure of the world? The author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos returns with an intriguing hypothesis that investigates the relationship between what current neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious traditions have long described. Maps of Meaning is a cutting-edge work that combines neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative. It presents a rich theory that makes myth's wisdom and meaning accessible to the critical modern mind.

The work displays the author's profound moral sensibility and extensive expertise in fields ranging from clinical psychology to scripture, as well as a great deal of personal soul-searching and experience… with patients such as convicts, alcoholics, and the mentally ill. Maps of Meaning is among the best books on behavioral psychology.

Author: Jordan B. Peterson

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