Here you will find other books that I have written. Books already available, as well as a list and description of upcoming books that I am currently working on, or have an intention to write!
The View of the Shrew: Unmasking the Truth in a Confused World 2025
The battle for sanity didn’t end in 2024.
In this sharp, fearless second volume of his acclaimed anthology, psychotherapist and cultural critic Todd Hayen returns with forty piercing essays from his popular Substack Shrew Views. Written throughout the disorienting year of 2025, these pieces cut through the fog of lingering narratives, emerging technocratic controls, political theater, and the deepening divide between those still clinging to official stories and those who refuse to surrender their critical faculties.
With his signature blend of Jungian insight, dark humor, psychological depth, and unflinching honesty, Hayen explores the continued erosion of truth, freedom, and human connection in a world that grows stranger by the month. From the absurdities of “progress,” the weaponization of language, the persistence of fear-based compliance, to the quiet spiritual costs of living in an age of manufactured reality — The View of the Shrew 2025 refuses to look away.
If the first volume was a chronicle of awakening, this one is a testament to endurance: a call to remain awake, compassionate yet uncompromising, and stubbornly human in the face of ever-evolving illusions.
For the growing pack of shrews who see clearly — and for those who sense something is deeply wrong but can’t quite name it — this book offers both recognition and resolve.
The veil is still being lifted. The dance continues.
Coming Summer 2026
The Essentials of Successful Coupling: Archetypal Tools for Relational Depth
In a time when relationships face unprecedented pressures—from digital distractions and shifting cultural expectations to the everyday challenges of modern life—many couples struggle to build and sustain deep, lasting connections.
The Essentials of Successful Coupling: An Archetypal Approach to Couples Therapy offers a fresh and profound framework for understanding partnership. Drawing on timeless archetypes, psychological insight, and practical therapeutic wisdom, Todd Hayen, PhD, RP, explores the hidden dynamics that shape how men and women relate to one another.
This book moves beyond surface-level advice to reveal the deeper patterns, roles, and energies at play in intimate relationships. Readers will discover how to navigate conflict with greater awareness, foster genuine intimacy, balance individual needs with shared goals, and cultivate the emotional resilience needed for long-term success.
Whether you’re a couple seeking to strengthen your bond, a therapist looking for new tools, or someone preparing for a meaningful relationship, this guide provides clear, compassionate, and transformative guidance for creating a partnership that thrives.
Warm, insightful, and grounded in real human experience, The Essentials of Successful Coupling is an essential resource for anyone ready to move from surviving together to truly flourishing together.
Coming Summer 2026
Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy: Sacred Science the the Search for Soul
What can the spiritual world of ancient Egypt teach us about healing the modern psyche?
In Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy: Sacred Science and the Search for Soul, Todd Hayen, PhD, RP, draws fascinating parallels between the enigmatic wisdom of one of history’s most profound civilizations and today’s therapeutic practices. Exploring concepts such as the Egyptians’ unique “consciousness of the heart”—an innate, holistic knowing of the universe—Hayen reveals how their deep inner awareness fostered extraordinary outer achievements.
Through a Jungian lens, this insightful book shows how reconnecting with these timeless ideas can help us navigate the fragmentation of contemporary life. It offers fresh perspectives on the search for meaning, the integration of soul and psyche, and the transformative power of psychotherapy in restoring wholeness.
Whether you are a therapist, a student of psychology, or simply someone drawn to the mysteries of ancient cultures and the human spirit, this book invites you to rediscover lost dimensions of consciousness and find greater depth and purpose in your own life.
Rich in historical insight and psychological wisdom, Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy is a compelling guide for anyone seeking to bridge the sacred past with the challenges of the present.
Available on Amazon
Why Life Sucks
Feeling like life has no meaning? Struggling with depression, emptiness, or a deep sense of unfulfillment?
In Why Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It, Todd Hayen, PhD, RP, offers a concise and compassionate guide to understanding and overcoming these painful feelings. Drawing from years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist, this short, powerful book cuts through the fog of despair and shares practical, tested techniques to help you shift your perspective and reclaim a sense of purpose.
At just around 20 pages, it’s a quick, impactful read that gets straight to the heart of what makes life feel unbearable at times — and more importantly, what you can actually do about it. Whether you’re in the depths of depression or simply searching for greater meaning, this little book provides clear insights and actionable steps to help you move forward with renewed hope and clarity.
Simple, honest, and deeply human, Why Life Sucks is an encouraging resource for anyone ready to stop surviving and start truly living again.
Available on Amazon
On the Very Edge of Magnificence
This book is profoundly personal. In On the Very Edge of Magnificence, Todd Hayen, PhD, RP, shares the intimate journey he and his beloved wife traveled together as she courageously faced cancer. Written as an anonymous memoir at the time, it offers an honest, heartfelt chronicle of love, loss, fear, and the search for meaning in the midst of profound suffering.
More than a simple account of illness, this moving narrative explores the deeper emotional and spiritual dimensions of caregiving, the limitations of conventional medical approaches, and the quiet magnificence that can emerge even at the edge of life’s greatest challenges. With raw vulnerability and compassionate insight, Hayen reflects on what it means to accompany someone you love through the unknown, and how such experiences can reshape our understanding of resilience, connection, and the human spirit.
Whether you are facing a similar journey, supporting a loved one through serious illness, or simply seeking a deeply human story of love and transformation, this book offers comfort, perspective, and a gentle reminder of the beauty that can be found in life’s most difficult moments.
Tender, honest, and deeply reflective, On the Very Edge of Magnificence is a powerful testament to the strength of the human heart.
Available on Amazon
The Modern Manboy: Updating the Puer Aeternus for the Digital Age
Beneath the surface of contemporary culture lurks an ancient wound: the eternal boy who refuses to grow up.
From the mythic figures of Icarus and Dionysus to Peter Pan’s Neverland, the puer aeternus has always danced at the edge of human consciousness — charming, creative, and forever free. Yet in our time, this archetype has metastasized into something darker and more pervasive. The Modern Manboy flies high on digital wings, chasing endless novelty, novelty, and stimulation, while remaining strangely allergic to limits, responsibility, and the grounding weight of adulthood.
Drawing on Jungian depth psychology, myth, and the Peter Pan story, The Modern Manboy explores how this eternal youth has become both a cultural ideal and a collective tragedy. What was once a vital spark of imagination and rebellion has hardened into arrested development: fear of commitment, emotional fragility, addiction to instant gratification, and a quiet terror of the feminine, the maternal, and the demands of mature relationship.
The puer promises freedom, but delivers fragmentation. He soars beautifully, yet his shadow falls long — leaving behind abandoned dreams, broken relationships, and a soul that never quite lands in its own life. In a world that celebrates perpetual adolescence, the Modern Manboy reveals the hidden cost: a profound disconnection from the deeper Self and the transformative pain that true individuation requires.
This is not a simple critique of “man children.” It is a compassionate yet unflinching archetypal diagnosis of our age — a mirror held up to the boy who never wants to become a man, and to the society that eagerly keeps him aloft.
Haunting and incisive, The Modern Manboy invites us to confront the seductive tragedy of eternal youth and asks whether we still possess the courage to grow up.
Coming this fall!
Om Sety: The Jewel of Abydos
Some loves do not begin in this lifetime — and some never truly end.
In 1904, a three-year-old English girl named Dorothy Eady fell down a flight of stairs, was pronounced dead, and awoke speaking of a life she had lived three thousand years earlier as Bentreshyt, a young priestess in the Temple of Abydos and the secret lover of Pharaoh Seti I. From that moment until her death in 1981, she lived as Om Sety — the “beloved of Seti” — drawn inexorably back to Egypt by a love so powerful it shattered the boundaries between life and death.
Through a richly Jungian and metaphysical lens, Om Sety: The Jewel of Abydos explores this extraordinary story not merely as past-life memory, but as a profound archetypal drama of the soul. Here the anima appears across millennia: the eternal feminine yearning for sacred union with the divine masculine, forever reaching across the veil of time. Om Sety’s life became a living enactment of the tragic structure of all human love — the ache for complete coniunctio that the material world, with its stubborn laws of time and separation, can never fully grant.
Her days were spent in the shadow of the Temple of Seti I, restoring its ruins, speaking with the gods, and tending the memory of a love that refused to die. Yet even in the sacred precincts of Abydos, the wound remained: two souls forever drawn together, yet forever kept apart by the gulf between lifetimes.
This is not simply the story of one woman’s reincarnation. It is a luminous meditation on the soul’s deepest longing — the forbidden, eternal pursuit of the Beloved that transcends death, only to rediscover, again and again, the bittersweet truth that every embrace across the veil still ends in parting.
Haunting, mystical, and deeply moving, Om Sety: The Jewel of Abydos reveals how one woman’s impossible love became a living testament to the alchemical fire that burns at the heart of every soul: the yearning for union that can never be fully satisfied in the world of form, yet refuses to be extinguished.
Coming in the future!
Tchaikovsky’s Women: The Soul’s Pursuit of Forbidden Love
In the shadowed heart of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s life and music lies a profound and universal tragedy: the soul’s relentless quest for complete union — the alchemical coniunctio — with its eternal other. Yet the material world, with its stubborn boundaries of skin, ego, and time, renders such oneness forever out of reach. Every embrace dissolves, every climax returns us to duality, and the deeper the longing, the sharper the wound.
Through a richly Jungian lens, Tchaikovsky’s Women explores how the composer projected his anima — the feminine soul-image — onto the women who moved through his life and art. Idealized and untouchable, these figures became vessels for a love that could never be fully embodied. His brief, disastrous marriage to Antonina Milyukova exposed the psyche’s violent rebellion against forced incarnation. With men, physical and emotional intimacy was possible, yet the anima remained projected elsewhere — most poignantly onto his beloved nephew Bob, the beautiful androgynous figure who could never quite reclaim the lost feminine within.
Tchaikovsky’s homosexuality did not merely complicate his longings; it stripped away the usual buffers of conventional fulfillment, intensifying the ache into something both exquisite and unbearable. What could not be resolved in life found transcendent, if fleeting, expression in his music: melodies that soar in ecstatic yearning only to fall back into unresolved melancholy, climaxes that promise union yet dissolve into bittersweet tension.
This is not a conventional biography. It is a psychological and archetypal reckoning with one man’s life as a mirror for the human condition. Tchaikovsky becomes the ultimate exemplar of a truth we all carry: when the quest for forbidden, absolute love becomes the central project of a soul, it courts dissolution — because otherness is both what makes love possible and what makes it impossible.
Haunting, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest, Tchaikovsky’s Women reveals how the composer transformed personal torment into art that still sings the deepest longings of the human heart. In the silence after the music fades, we glimpse the only union truly available: the one born in the fire of longing itself.
Coming in the future!
From Composer, to Screen, to Audience: The Psychology and Magic of Film Music
Film music is the invisible force that slips past our conscious mind and speaks directly to the soul.
From the flickering shadows of ancient cave walls to the darkened theaters of today, moving images have always needed sound to awaken their full power. Yet it is the music — often unnoticed, always deeply felt — that transforms flat projected light into living emotional truth. It bridges the visible screen and the invisible realm of the psyche, turning mere entertainment into modern ritual and collective catharsis.
Drawing on his dual life as a Hollywood film composer and Jungian-oriented psychotherapist, Todd Hayen explores the profound psychological and magical dimensions of film music. How does a rising motif stir the archetype of the Hero? How does a dissonant chord awaken the Shadow? How does a single haunting melody bypass rational defenses and open the heart to the numinous — that shiver of awe, grief, or transcendent love that words can never fully capture?
From the silent era’s live piano to the lush leitmotifs of the Golden Age, from modernist experimentation to today’s hybrid electronic scores, film music has evolved into one of the most potent tools for shaping unconscious experience. It primes emotion, guides empathy, activates archetypal patterns, and creates moments of genuine synchronicity between composer, screen, and audience.
This is not a technical manual on scoring techniques. It is a depth-psychological inquiry into the alchemical mystery at the heart of cinema: how invisible sound animates visible illusion, how music reaches into the collective unconscious, and how the entire journey — from the composer’s inner world, through the screen, into the heart of the audience — becomes a contemporary vessel for soul-making.
Haunting, illuminating, and deeply personal, From Composer, to Screen, to Audience reveals film music as far more than accompaniment. It is the hidden heartbeat of the cinematic dream — the magical thread that weaves light, shadow, and sound into an experience capable of touching the eternal within us all.
Coming in the future!
Eternal Guardians: Shadows of the Duat
Book One of the Eternal Guardians Series
Now for a fun fiction book!
In the shadowed streets of modern Toronto, four eternal figures walk among us — forever young, forever hidden. Once a palace guard, a handmaid, a scribe, and a farmer in ancient Thebes, they drank a sacred elixir in 1279 BCE and were bound by the gods to guard the fragile gates between the living world and the Duat.
For three thousand years, they have survived by remaining unseen — street people in a city that never looks twice. This is not the Egypt you learned in school. The pyramids, the Sphinx, the Osireion, and the Serapeum are far older than conventional history claims. They are remnants of Zep Tepi — the First Time — a lost green Sahara civilization stretching back over 35,000 years, when matter was lighter, stones rose on sound alone, and the veil between worlds was thin. The gods of Egypt were not myths, but the last echoes of the Star Walkers who taught humanity to sing reality into being.
When an ancient heart scarab fractures in the heart of Toronto, the old frequency begins to awaken. The veil trembles. Black sand leaks through cracks in the city streets, and the song that once shaped the world starts to stir once more. Now the four guardians must make an impossible choice: silence the melody that could return wonder to the world… or let it sing — and risk everything they have protected for thirty-five thousand years.
A gripping blend of urban fantasy, mystical adventure, and bold alternative history, Eternal Guardians: Shadows of the Duat launches an epic series where ancient secrets bleed into the modern world, and the line between guardian and echo begins to blur.
Coming in the future!
Hitler’s Teeth: The Forensic Proof that Still Haunts History
In the final hours of April 1945, Adolf Hitler died in his Berlin bunker. Or so the official story goes.
What remains of that death is shockingly small: a few charred fragments of jawbone and a handful of teeth. These dental remains became the sole physical evidence used by the Soviets — and later the world — to confirm that the most infamous dictator of the twentieth century was truly gone.
But the teeth did not bring closure. Instead, they became something far more disturbing: a modern relic that carries the unbearable weight of history’s greatest shadow.
In Hitler’s Teeth, Jungian psychologist and author Todd Hayen, PhD, undertakes a deep psychological archaeology of this strange forensic object. What does it mean that the proof of Hitler’s death rests on something so intimate and grotesque as his teeth? Why did Stalin obsessively hide and re-examine them? Why does the world still feel uneasy about this tiny fragment of proof?
Drawing on Jungian psychology, archetypal theory, and meticulous historical research, Hayen explores how a physical remnant can become a vessel for the collective shadow — the part of humanity that refuses to fully bury its monsters. The teeth emerge not merely as forensic evidence, but as a symbol of the corpse that will not stay buried, the proof that both confirms and undermines our need for resolution.
This is not another conspiracy theory about whether Hitler escaped to Argentina. It is a profound meditation on how we confront (or fail to confront) evil, how history attempts to seal away its nightmares, and why certain relics continue to exert a haunting psychological power long after the man himself is gone.
Haunting, rigorously researched, and unflinchingly psychological, Hitler’s Teeth asks the disturbing question: When the monster is reduced to a few teeth, why does the shadow still feel so alive?