A Jungian case studies has a passionate interest in symbols, and one of the most strikingly visible symbols in suburban life must surely be: dogs. Dogs are almost omnipresent in suburbia. Clearly, in our culture as a whole, and in suburbia in particular, dogs are…

Self-help books are unbelievably popular, but they don’t meet many of the needs that individual therapy can meet. It’s not that self-help books aren’t good or useful.  But there are some key, bedrock things that we need in our lives that we can get from…

Individual case studies needs to understand as much as possible about how workaholism can possess and consume the lives of individuals. If we take workaholism seriously as a form of addiction, what does that imply for the way we look at compulsive working?

There's a collective ideal of marriage and family that underlies suburban life, even to this day. There is an expectation in suburbia of how families should look and function -- an image. While that has changed somewhat over the last 50 years, it's not really…

Often, we see people around us become more and more entrenched in set opinions and ways of doing things as they age. We often readily spot this lack of open-ness in others. But is it a danger that we need to be aware of in…

In my clinical practice in individual case studies in an affluent suburb, workaholism is one of the more common issues. What is workaholism? The simple answer is "a consistent and compulsive addiction to working too much." And certainly long hours are characteristic of the workaholic.…