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The Reluctant Adult: An exploration of choice (Revisited) – The Victimhood Archetype and the Evolution of Consciousness by Jill Hall
This much anticipated and exciting new edition is just published 25th June 2025. Originally printed in the early 1990s, now with additional material and updates.
This new edition of a prescient masterpiece from the 1990s brings updates including a new Preface, Foreword, Afterword, Appendixes & a comprehensive index. The book was very ahead of its time 30 years ago, and is even more urgently relevant today, exploring how to get beyond the wheel of victimhood, finding our full adulthood in freedom.
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Why is it that a sense of freedom and well-being is not a more natural human state? Perhaps we are still hampered by an outdated ‘Newtonian Psychology’ which underpins the belief that something or somebody caused us to be the way we are. Once trapped in an endless chain of blaming, woundedness and guilt, victimhood prevails and adulthood then eludes us.
Along with our species’ physical maturity, there must surely be vital aspects of the human psyche which most of us have not, as yet, brought into play. In relinquishing our present framework of thought, and opening to a more extended experience of self, spirit and ego could then be reconciled, with freedom and responsibility becoming an achievable reality. Yet letting go is precisely what we fear most. This book is an exploration of why this should be so – and an invitation to embrace our full adulthood.
“It is a real thrill to find the spiritual aspect of holism expressed with such vision and authority. This is a splendid piece of psychological holism. ” Sir George Trevelyan
“A powerful rejection of victimhood and a defence of our fullest humanity. For those who want to understand how society has adopted a diminished idea of human being this book is essential reading.” Dennis Hayes, Emeritus Professor of Education
“Jill Hall’s central theory not only accounts for, and draws together, all the most important issues facing humanity at this time, but also affords a possible way forward towards their solution.” Dr Richard House, ret. senior university lecturer in Psychology
“The impact of this book has changed my way of thinking about the world.” Robin Shohet, author and psychotherapist
About Jill Hall
Jill Hall was born in Cape Town in the 1930’s into an environment of extreme inequality and oppression, which remained unrecognised by all those around her. It was a relief to move to London in her late teens to train as an actress at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. In her thirties she married and became the mother of two daughters. Attracted to the world of self-development in the early days of the Growth Movement, she decided to become a psychotherapist, later to become a tutor at the Institute of Biodynamic Psychology in London.
Following the death of her husband in 1993, Jill continued her work as an holistic therapist, while at the same time attending Residential Science and Mystic Conferences. She will never forget the evening when the scientist Glen Schaffer shared with the audience the realisation that spirit was prior to matter.
She currently lives and works in Norwich, where she continues to see individuals and couples for therapy. Jill also runs weekend residential groups and individual tailor-made retreats at her house. For details ring 01603 626614.
An Interview with the Author!
Listen to a two part interview with the author, Jill Hall. Richard House interviews Jill Hall in Part 1 about her life experiences which led her to writing the book, The Reluctant Adult, and in Part 2 about important aspects of the book itself — why it is even more, and urgently, relevant than ever for our times. Soon to be posted will be the two part video version.
The interview was carried out in an informal setting, Jill being assisted in the set-up by a long-time colleague, Tim Broughton.
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Extracts from The Reluctant Adult, Revisited
In the book extract in the window below are the Table of Contents, Foreword, Prefaces, and Introduction. These can also be downloaded and shared. If this is difficult to read, you can click here to read extracts from the book instead.
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