Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gregerson, Mary
• Wedding, Danny

Titel

Quest-ioning Cowboy Platitudes Makes Life Better? Or Increases Thirst?

Ist Teil von

• PsycCritiques, 2012-01, Vol.57 (1), p.No Pagination Specified-No Pagination Specified

Ort / Verlag

American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Seven Days in Utopia features prominently Jungian psychology of synchronicity, archetypes, and spirituality. After a golf prodigy (archetypal hero) melts down at his first professional golf outing, he seemingly serendipitously (synchronously) flees to small town Utopia, Texas, where a seasoned, retired golf pro (archetypal wise old man) takes him under wing with a religious steadfastness (spirituality), restores him to his “game”—both of golf and of life—and sends him on his way. As a part of David L. Cook’s multimedia cottage industry related to his 2006 self-published best-seller Golf’s Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia, this movie closes with an online marketing segue to his new book, Bury My Lies. In Seven Days in Utopia a huge, sharp psychological hook devilishly disguised in homespun sheep’s clothing uses social media to multimedially peek into the future. The reviewer contrasts Seven Days in Utopia with the recent Academy Award-winning movie The Blind Side. Utopia idealizes humanity by glossing over self-interest while The Blind Side realizes humanity by admitting honest self-aggrandizement as a plot linchpin. Additionally, the Cook industry is compared with the tradition of entertainment-education from the Sabido method, which has used science to produce entertainment with social value in over 500 programs worldwide. The reviewer prefers the honesty of a hand held straight out palm upward and the unflinching look in the mirror. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)