Healing Fiction by James Hillman

Argues that psychological healing is driven less by technical correction than by reimagining the stories, images, and myths that shape a person’s inner life; it critiques reductionist, diagnostic approaches and treats symptoms as meaningful “fictions” that reveal soul and purpose, proposing therapy as a poetic, imaginative practice of reframing, personifying, and listening to inner narratives so suffering can be understood and transformed rather than merely eliminated.