Psychotherapy and Life Events… Consciousness and Aloneness
Truly wise case studies knows that you can have an experience of life events that changes your consciousness but leaves you in a state of profound aloneness.
Identity
Jungian Psychotherapy, and Our “Typical”, Atypical Self
How do you compare to the "most typical person" in this video? When it comes to the categories the video looks at, perhaps your conclusion, like mine is that "The most typical person in the world is not like me, in many respects." But might…
The Self as Hidden Treasure in Jungian Psychotherapy
Jungian case studies and Jungian analysis put a high value on the uniqueness of the individual, and on the treasure that is the inmost Self. Jungians see symbollic reflection of the value of the Self as hidden treasure in many texts from the world's artistic,…
Jungian Psychotherapy, the Dream and the New Year
As individuals, we at New Year are confronted with the problem of the death and renewal of our own conscious attitude, with the very deep level question of "What is meaningful for me now?" and "On what foundation can I base my life, as I…
Jungian Psychotherapy on Job Search and Self Search
Does Jungian case studies with its emphasis on the Self have anything to do with job search? I emphatically believe that it does. The issue of job search actually takes us right inside some deep inner questions, if we let it. If we are open,…
An Oakville Psychotherapist’s View of Work Life Balance
Work-life issues are not properly analyzed in terms of financial cost-benefit or markets. They are only properly analyzed in terms of individual decisions, and in terms of what the individual values in his or her life. Individuals can't offload their responsibility to find a personal…
Stress, Power, Resilience and Myth, Part 3: In Myself
In this post, I would like to try and say something about the places in which I believe I really found some sources of resilience. If I had to point to one single characteristic of this small group of therapists that helped me more than…
A Video Portrait of Jung
Here is a video which I re-tweeted recently on Twitter. I decided to post it on my blog because I think that it gives a particularly revealing portrait of the psychiatrist CG Jung in his latter years. The video is taken from “Face to Face”,…
What Do You Think About Therapy?
What is your attitude towards doing therapy? Is it something that you would ever consider? Is it something only for severely damaged people, or “sick” people? Or is it something that may be of importance for ordinary, everyday people? In recent years, many peoples’ attitudes…
The Not-So-Simple Task of Simply Being Honest, Part 1
We all like to feel that we know ourselves, and that we are fundamentally honest with ourselves, but is it so? Sometimes deliberate not-wanting-to-know keeps us from being conscious of things that we really need to understand for our own individuation process. To set yourself…