Negative stereotypes are oversimplified, fixed, and inaccurate beliefs applied to an entire group of people based on traits like race, gender, age, or background. They cause harm by fuelling prejudice, encouraging unfair treatment, and triggering stress or underperformance through stereotype threat.
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
