Anxiety Behind the Mask, Part III, Heart Trouble …I asked him why he thought the whites were all mad. “They say that they think with their heads,” he replied. “Why of course. What do you think with?” I asked him in surprise. “We think here,”…
When I was 9 or 10 years old, I was an insatiable Iron Man fan. I used to race to the local drug store every day to see if a new issue of my hero’s adventures had hit the stands yet. I still admire Stan…
The research paper that I have linked to below is both striking and very important. It provides strong empirical evidence of the effectiveness of “psychodynamic case studies”. That’s a technical term for those forms of case studies, like the Jungian approach, which: take the unconscious…
In the first part of this series, I wrote about how the experience of connection to a specific place that is home can be powerful and profound. However, there are also many people for whom there is no connection to a sense of home. And, for…
Dear Readers, With some great help, I’ve finally been able to move my blog onto my main website, which is something that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. I hope that you will continue to read and enjoy my posts.…
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.
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.…
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 reflection-provoking quote from Jung on how we tend to see other people. “Everybody thinks that psychology is what he himself knows best — psychology is always his psychology, which he alone knows, and at the same time his psychology is everybody else’s psychology. Instinctively he…