Individuation

It may come as a shock to realize it, but a human being is not just one solid big lump of personality, with unified intent and will.  This is what most people choose to believe, but the psychological truth is quite different. In each of us there…

Sometimes you read something in the newspaper or online that strikes you as just plain wrong. That was my reaction when I read a recent article in the Globe and Mail, 7,000,000,000 grains 7,000,000,000 stories.  It seems that James Yarker, of the theatre collective Stan’s…

He woke up one day, and realized that he didn’t recognize his marriage, his partner or himself.  He realized that things had gone on in a certain way for years and years, but that for a long time now, he had just been going through…

  Well… okay, not exactly.  It’s true that the following quotation doesn’t have suburbia directly in mind.  But Jung does manage to touch on some of the biggest psychological issues for the outer- and other- oriented suburb dweller of the present day. At least, I…

According to a recent New York Times article, people in North America are finding their lives more and more embroiled in anxiety.  This is a social trend that started prior to the start of the economic downturn, and which has been increasing since that time,…

In Part One on this subject, I looked at the connection between stress and our relationship to our own deepest being, the Self.  In this post, I examine the way that stress plays out in our daily lives, and some possible ways in which we can…

Here’s a quotation from Jung that’s quite brief, but it says a mouthful: “The opus (work) consists of three parts: insight, endurance and action.  Psychology is needed only in the first part, but in the second and third parts, moral strength plays the predominant role…”…

  In 1931, over 75 years ago, C. G. Jung gave an interview to an American journalist in Vienna.  In it, he laid out a description of what he saw as some of the central dilemmas facing Americans. In this moment, we are in the…

Here in Oakville, Mississauga and the surrounding areas, many people are really feeling the impact of recent economic events. There is a strong sense that the last 6-8 months have brought a lot of changes to people’s economic and business situations.  Things are not feeling anywhere near…

  This is the third part and final part in my series “Therapy: Pain-Killer or Path to Myself?”  PART ONE dealt with some of the familiar things that go on when people start therapy, and PART TWOfocused on “Five Things that Sustain Me on the…