Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, blogger for "Huffington Post" and "Musings from 20th Street," and the author of eight books, including the acclaimed, "The Dark Side of Love." She is the owner of La Casa Day Spa in New York City, now celebrating its 21st year anniversary. In her specialization of working with cancer patients, Dr. Goldberg has integrated her psychoanalytic work with the field of holistic health. She has worked with many cancer patients who, through commitment to sound principles of health as well as an interest in the exploration of their mental, emotional and psychic states, have defied the statistical odds and consider themselves fully healed. Dr. Goldberg is also the Founder and Director of Brainercize, a system of interactive integrative brain exercise classes designed to maximize brain functioning. She is also the Founder and Director of RRRPM (Restorative, Regenerative, Rebalancing Post-Mastectomy). Mythologist, Bible expert, and Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens and John S. Mosby, is the most prolific and popular pro-South writer in the world today. Known as the "Southern Joseph Campbell" for his numerous works on mythology, religion, and spirituality, he is a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the author and editor of nearly 100 books that have introduced hundreds of thousands to the hidden truths about Jesus, Christianity, and the Bible. A seventh-generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Colonel Seabrook has a forty-year background in American history, Southern history, and Bible studies, and is the author of the international blockbuster "Jesus and the Law of Attraction."
BOOK DEVIL REVIEW: I've never been one to find fascination with the royal family. I just never understood the grip they have on fans, particularly this side of the Atlantic. However, in no way could I miss out on examining Jane Goldberg's and Lochlainn Seabrook's Princess Diana, Modern Day Moon-Goddess: A Psychoanalytical and mythological look at Diane Spencer's Life, Marriage and Death. Though some could fairly argue that the archetypal and mythological applications this book makes to Diana's life are either vague and easy, or else forced, I still say this is interesting and insightful and has something real to say. At least I learned something. I now have a better grasp on the thrall in which Diana fans are held. Diana and the royal family at large inhabit a sort of modern mythology, a secular mythology, with roots in Freudian and Jungian subconscious psychology, but also with roots in ancient pagan proto-religions. Goldberg and Seabrook dive through one of Seabrook's favorite topics - the matriarchal foundations of man's religions and the suppression of the Moon-Goddess in favor of the patriarchal Sun-God (later "Son"-God, another of Seabrook's favored subjects) - and in the process they apply these concepts to Diana and Charles, their marriage, divorce, etc. The authors even point out some compelling synchronicities in Diana's death. It's a short book - I blazed through it in less than a day's time - but the blazing was also fueled by the interest factor of this unique material. Some will balk, others will embrace it wholly. In any case, this a surprising and captivating, not to mention creatively imaginative (in a positive, mythic fashion), work of academic literature. It's worth a peek even if you, like me, are not a British royalty aficionado, but have an interest in mythology at large, as well as in psychology, particularly of the Jungian variety. That last bit is where psychology and mythology can really be seen to dovetail, as more fully expounded by the brilliant Joseph Campbell, whose thoughts on this book I'd love to have had. - KRISTOFER UPJOHN.
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