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…
In this open space of time, you have the opportunity to learn something about yourself, about relationship, and about your feelings about your own real life. This day, seeming empty, may prove to be a doorway, if you take the opportunity it provides to look…
This post is much more directly concerned with the subjective experience of mind, and especially of body and instinct.... Modern humans can be very cut off from the instinctual basis of life, and even from being aware of our bodily existence.... But, even so, as…
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…
I thought that I would try and say a little bit in this post about how a Jungian approach to dream interpretation might look like "in action". Here's a dream motif that appears sometimes in case studies, in one form or another, the motif of…
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…
The story of rescue of the miners trapped at the bottom of the mine at Copiapo, Chile embodies resilience,to a remarkable degree. The world's media have been following the fortunes of the miners with tremendous verve and intensity. From a psychological point of view, why…
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 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…
As I indicated in Part 1 of this post, if we really get serious about the task of being honest with ourselves, sooner or later, we are going to run into what Jung calls the Shadow. The Shadow represents all those parts of ourselves that…