Discover the difference between what the Grimm brothers' tales actually say and what we think they ought to have said, and in the process find real, vital insights into how we could live more happily, understand our need for personal growth, and find our significant other.

The Healing Power of the Grimm Brothers' Tales

192 pages paperback

“You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince” – at least that’s what people say. But what if the princess never kissed that frog? What if that whole episode was invented by Walt Disney Studios? Have you been trying to run your romantic life by depending on inaccurate information? What if the original story says something completely different?

Welcome to the world of Grimm’s healing tales, where Cinderella has no fairy godmother, frogs never get kissed, and strange things happen that were edited out of your childhood nursery rhymes book. We'll discover the difference between what the Grimm brothers' tales actually say and what we think they ought to have said, and in the process we'll find real, vital insights into how we could live more happily, understand our need for personal growth, and find our significant other. This will bring us into a richer, deeper world of personal exploration, and will show us the true healing nature of these beloved tales. And if you really want to find your prince or princess, this book will give you some essential pointers.

Read an excerpt below.

Allan G. Hunter was born in England in 1955 and completed all his degrees at Oxford University, emerging with a doctorate in English Literature in 1983. His first book was Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism. In 1986, after working at Fairleigh Dickinson University's British campus and at Peper Harow Therapeutic Community for disturbed adolescents, he moved to the US. For the past twenty years he has been a professor of literature at Curry College in Massachusetts, and a therapist. He has produced two books specifically aimed at using writing and drawing exercises therapeutically - The Sanity Manual and Life Passages. Both books are based on his revolutionary interactive writing exercises, tried and proven in counselling sessions and classes. While working with clients in this way he began to uncover the presence of a series of archetypes within their writings. This led to his present work with the formulation of the six archetypal stages of spiritual development.

Four years ago he began teaching with the Blue Hills Writing Institute and he has remained with it ever since, working with students to explore the memoir and life-writing. His own experience of this medium is reflected in From Coastal Command to Captivity; The Memoir of a Second World War Airman, a project on which he worked with his father up to the time of his death. It required extensive reworking to bring this memoir to completion. As in all his books, the emphasis is on the healing nature of the stories we weave for ourselves if we choose to connect to the archetypal tales of our culture.

For more, see http://allanhunter.net/ or his YouTube Channel