James Hillman's book is mainly for ministers of religion to show them how analytical psychology ‘moves towards “re-mythologizing” experiences with religious implications’ (p. 17). It is a counter-blast to the Bishop of Woolwich's book Honest to God, which Hill-man dislikes for its attempt to demythologize Christianity into a religion of ‘personal relationships’ based on love. Hillman's first round is to write a good chapter detailing some of the complexities of ‘personal relationships’ in the context of pastoral counselling.

Thus he describes problems connected with denied or unconscious emotional needs in the counsellor (pp. 12-14); over-activism in doing good (p. 15); difficulties in listening (p. 16) etc. In particular he links the old sin of curiositas as described by St. Bernard of