The Reluctant Adult – Revisited

The Reluctant Adult — Revisited: An exploration of choice

The Victimhood Archetype and the Evolution of Consciousness

by Jill Hall
preface by Robin Shohet

A much anticipated and exciting new edition, originally printed in the early 1990s, 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.

“It is a real thrill to find the spiritual aspect of holism expressed with such vision and authority” Sir George Trevelyan

Paperback, ISBN 978-1-915594-06-8, 337 pages, B&W illustrations, £19.99

“This is a splendid piece of psychological holism.”
Sir George Trevelyan

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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 Perhaps we are still hampered by an outdated ‘Newtonian Psychology’ which underpins the belief that something or somebody caused us to be the way we are.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 me to find the spiritual aspect of holism expressed with such vision and authority.” 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 the Author

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.

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.