The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight in the Male Psyche

by Robert L. Moore, Douglas Gillette

A Jungian psychoanalyst and a mythologist teach men how to recover the warrior within themselves and to use this aggressive energy to improve their careers, their family lives, and their roles in the community. 75,000 first printing. Major ad/promo.

Genres: Psychology, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Self Help, Warriors, Personal Development

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Robert L. Moore (August 13, 1942 - June 18, 2016) was an American Jungian analyst and consultant in private practice in Chicago, Illinois. He was the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality at the Chicago Theological Seminary; a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago; and director of research for the Institute for the Science of Psychoanalysis. Author and editor of numerous books in psychology and spirituality, he lectured internationally on his formulation of a Neo-Jungian paradigm for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He was working on Structural Psychoanalysis and Integrative Psychotherapy: A Neo-Jungian Paradigm at the time of his death.

Dr Robert Moore was an internationally recognized psychotherapist and consultant in private practice in Chicago. Although he worked with both men and women, and was considered one of the leading therapists specializing in psychotherapy with men because of his discovery of the Archetypal Dynamics of the Masculine Self (King, Warrior, Magician, Lover). He served as Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality at the Graduate Center of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and has served as a Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is Co-founder of the Chicago Center for Integrative Psychotherapy.

Reviews

[Morgan Blackledge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Explores the male/warrior archetype from a jungian perspective.

This book is a great elaboration on the same author’s other book, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover. See my review of it here (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...).

5/5 ⭐️

[Mihkel Ummelas · Rating 5 out of 5]

The fact that this book is out of print is very unfortunate, a great disgrace and very telling. A must read for men.

[Dale L Hardee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very insightful book that makes archetypal thinking approachable. I came away with profound insights on some of the tendencies where my masculinity has been out of balance. Through strength and confidence in our own masculinity, we have the power to truly engage with the world in a compassionate way.

[Zach · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is as important as is it was in 1993. He called a lot of what's come to be regarding the warrior in the masculine. A tight book. Gets its point across directly and thoroughly.

[Janne · Rating 5 out of 5]

What do you think when the word Warrior appears to you?

For Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, it is men such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Not quite what you had in mind? Perhaps there is still something to learn about the mature male psyche.

Warrior is often linked with aggressiveness and destructiveness. While those are important qualities of a warrior, real warrior is not purely set out to destroy. Real warrior is there to set out to destroy what doesn't work and construct what is right in the world. Real warrior is both creator and a destroyer, a man with a mission to build and expand.

Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight in the Male Psyche is a book about the Warrior archetype of a masculine psyche, how to access it and why.

I cannot recommend this book as standalone, you should first read the outlining book: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature.

[Atakan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only read certain parts..

The authors could’ve written a timeless, wonderful piece of work but they’ve opted to write a time constricted, kind of crybaby, pseudo-sociological and -political book. Well, that’s what you’d expect from a Jungian, not too surprising :)

Still has valuable parts of course. But hard, very hard to read. Someone should do a do-over & leave a perennial work that Moore et al couldn’t.

[Sebastián Aquino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book.

[Stephan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book to read. I learned a lot, and have a newfound appreciation for the warrior archetype in men. I also appreciate the deeper discussion of the shadow of the warrior: the sadist and masochist.

I was ranking it a 5 star in my mind until I got to the end. I had expected some exercises at the end of the book on how to more fully access the warrior archetypes. Instead there were no such explicit exercise listed. I took off a star for that.

Overall, a very worthy book to read.

[John K. Ross, MD · Rating 5 out of 5]

A continuation/elaboration of the excellent Jungianp-based model of male psychology I first found in their "King, Warrior, Lover, Magician". An appendix has a brief discussion of the structure of the female psyche, based on their general model--something for which I've been searching for quite a while.

This is good stuff.