There are some people who might look a bit oddly at you if you tell them you pay close attention to your dreams. To some people, in fact, it seems like an incredibly “flaky” thing to do. Often, these people subscribe to the “daily regurgitation” theory…
Often people get to the point in life where they reach an impasse, and they don’t know how to solve a particular situation in their lives. There doesn’t seem to be a way forward and there doesn’t seem to be a solution. Although this can happen at any point 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…
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…
This has been an extremely busy time for me, and I apologize to those of you who may have been expecting that I would be posting before now. I have a number of somewhat longer posts that I expect to put up on the…
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…
Dreams figure prominently in Carl Jung’s psychology, and he has a great deal to teach us about them. The quotation that follows builds very well on my earlier post in which Jung reflects on the position that many people find themselves in at mid-life. “Through scientific understanding,…
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…