Dr. Barbara Hort
A Sense of Meaning is the Best Medicine
When we are suffering, and we have no sense of meaning for our suffering, our pain is unbearable. But when we discover a personal sense of meaning in the things that frighten and hurt us, we also discover new sources of strength, nurturance, and healing that we never knew we had.
My name is Dr. Barbara Hort, and all of my work — in private practice, in live theater, and in my writing — is based on this principle. I seek the redemptive power of meaning in the most painful and shadowy realms of human experience. Join me to learn how meaning can transform our darkest pain into illumination and reassurance.
Dr. Barbara Hort
A Sense of Meaning is the Best Medicine
When we are suffering, and we have no sense of meaning for our suffering, our pain is unbearable. But when we discover a personal sense of meaning in the things that frighten and hurt us, we also discover new sources of strength, nurturance, and healing that we never knew we had.
My name is Dr. Barbara Hort, and all of my work — in private practice, in live theater, and in my writing — is based on this principle. I seek the redemptive power of meaning in the most painful and shadowy realms of human experience. Join me to learn how meaning can transform our darkest pain into illumination and reassurance.
Dr. Barbara Hort
A Sense of Meaning is the Best Medicine
When we are suffering, and we have no sense of meaning for our suffering, our pain is unbearable. But when we discover a personal sense of meaning in the things that frighten and hurt us, we also discover new sources of strength, nurturance, and healing that we never knew we had.
My name is Dr. Barbara Hort, and all of my work — in private practice, in live theater, and in my writing — is based on this principle. I seek the redemptive power of meaning in the most painful and shadowy realms of human experience. Join me to learn how meaning can transform our darkest pain into illumination and reassurance.
Meet the Author, Dr. Hort
Dr. Hort has developed her wide-ranging career in psychology over nearly four decades, with a primary emphasis on the ground-breaking work of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Her private practice have been deepened by her post-graduate studies with the Jungian analysts Jean Shinoda Bolen M.D. and Marion Woodman, both of whom have emphasized the crucial role of the Feminine and Nature in their work.
Beyond private practice, Dr. Hort has worked closely with theater director Chris Coleman to develop psychodramaturgy — a new theater practice in which the psychological dynamics of a play are clarified in order to assist the artists in their embodiment of the play’s characters and story. Dr. Hort has also served on the faculties of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and Washington State University, Vancouver, during which tenures she published numerous academic articles in the fields of social and developmental psychology.
Feeding Frenzy — Dr. Hort's latest book
We are living through a time in which we are once again confronted with predatory behavior by human groups that ignites our horror and fear. We are asking ourselves how it is that otherwise ordinary people can come to do such extraordinarily terrible things to other people, people who have done them no harm at all?
Dr. Barbara Hort employs the ancient art of storytelling to answer this question. She weaves history, science, and psychology to describe the "Recipe for the Perpetration for Evil" that was identified in the aftermath of the Holocaust by researchers who wanted to reduce or even prevent the occurrence of similar atrocities in the future. Feeding Frenzy carefully describes this poisonous recipe for collective abuse, which we might call "social vampirism," and it also proposes the crucial "antidote" for minimizing and even avoiding similar predation. In addition, Feeding Frenzy offers a description of the psychological balm that can heal victims (and even perpetrators) of such collective abuse.
Feeding Frenzy — Dr. Hort's latest book
We are living through a time in which we are once again confronted with predatory behavior by human groups that ignites our horror and fear. We are asking ourselves how it is that otherwise ordinary people can come to do such extraordinarily terrible things to other people, people who have done them no harm at all?
Dr. Barbara Hort employs the ancient art of storytelling to answer this question. She weaves history, science, and psychology to describe the "Recipe for the Perpetration for Evil" that was identified in the aftermath of the Holocaust by researchers who wanted to reduce or even prevent the occurrence of similar atrocities in the future. Feeding Frenzy carefully describes this poisonous recipe for collective abuse, which we might call "social vampirism," and it also proposes the crucial "antidote" for minimizing and even avoiding similar predation. In addition, Feeding Frenzy offers a description of the psychological balm that can heal victims (and even perpetrators) of such collective abuse.
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