Does February Bring Any GIfts?
Does February bring us any gifts? How could it?... Here are some things that might be helpful to think about at this time. They've proved valuable to me, so I leave them with you for your consideration
Does February bring us any gifts? How could it?... Here are some things that might be helpful to think about at this time. They've proved valuable to me, so I leave them with you for your consideration
In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on what are called “brief psychotherapies” by the therapeutic profession. The emphasis has been on providing very short courses of case studies to individuals, with an eye to providing concrete definable “results” with respect to…
This voyage of exploration will go on for a very long time, I expect. To really plumb the depths of the Red Book is a feat not lightly or easily acheived.
This week I spoke with a very large number of people who are confronting serious issues around setting boundaries at work. I don’t mean facing boundaries issues like sexual harassment, or things like that — although that’s common enough, unfortunately. I mean situations where people…
Can I get a witness? Some of you will recognize this phrase from R and B music; some of you may recognize it as a phrase used in the black church. But it's a phrase that has an awful lot to do with case studies.
Out here in suburbia, great pressure is often placed on people to “look good”. People feel all kinds of pressure to keep their image in the finest order. We get the message that it’s important to keep your grass well-cut and your garden well-manicured.…
Here is a very evocative quote from Jung on the effect of integrating unconscious material into our conscious selves. He stresses that what happens to us is fundamentally beyond description, and yet fundamentally real. “What happens within oneself when one integrates previously unconscious contents…
Here’s something that Jung writes in Memories, Dreams and Reflections that might seem to hit you right where you live. That’s the effect it has on me, certainly. It comes out of the time that Jung spent amongst the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in…
Here’s a quote from Jung that I’ve been looking for for a long time. It is a classic comment of Jung’s about the reality of the inner life and the psyche. “And so, you see, the man [sic] who goes by the influence of the…