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GINETTE PARIS
Ginette Paris is a psychologist, therapist, and author of numerous books, including Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience (2007). She is now Faculty Emeritus at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. Trained as a psychologist in Montréal, Canada, she was a tenured professor in the Department of Communication of the University of Québec for 15 years. Her books have been translated in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Dr. Paris is a Honorary Member of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal.
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ABORTION
Second edition 2007
Paperback original, 72 pages, $18
ISBN: 978-0-88214-560-0
Kindle/Apple Books edition, $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-88214-967-7
Issues of life and death, love and responsibility are at the core of every religion. That is why the English translation of this book was originally published with the title The Sacrament of Abortion, as it shows that the decision to abort may also spring from a religious feeling that it is the “right” thing to do, both physically and spiritually: “Abortion is about love, life, and death.”
 
 
One must preserve in one’s self, whether man or woman, an intact strength, inviolable and radically feminine; this is the Artemisian part of the anima that guards the untamed zone of our psyche, without which we risk becoming overdomesticated human beings, too easily touchable.
This same quality allows us to visualize a world of increasing respect for children—a world in which one can occasionally resort to abortion when it is necessary to sacrifice the fetus to a higher cause, namely, the love of children and the refusal to see them suffer.
Abortion as a sacrifice to Artemis. Abortion as a sacrament—for the gift of life to remain pure.
—GINETTE PARIS
 
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PAGAN MEDITATIONS
The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia
Second edition 2022
Paperback original, 220 pages, $22
ISBN: 978-0-88214-958-5
Kindle/Apple Books edition, $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-88214-058-2
 
Am I a feminist? Yes, for sure, and this book is my contribution to imaginative feminism. Each goddess is an inspiration for a different feminism, and collectively they teach us about the polytheistic complexity we need to get out of the twentieth century: more complexity and fewer complexes … As a social psychologist, I see archetypal psychology as the best way to prevent dogmatism and ideological violence. It addresses both the meditative interior of each person and the community of culture. From both these domains, the “pagan” goddesses—especially Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia—have been excluded for almost two thousand years.
—GINETTE PARIS
 
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PAGAN GRACE
Dionysos, Hermes, and Goddess Memory in Daily Life
Third, revised edition 2018
Paperback original, 178 pages, $22
ISBN: 978-0-88214-067-4
Kindle/Apple Books edition, $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-88214-048-3
With this book, Ginette Paris continues the work of Pagan Meditations in reviving individual, cultural, and social life by reawakening their archetypal roots.