This post examines the implications of a quote from Jung: The psychic situation of the individual is so menaced nowadays by advertising, propaganda and other more or less well-meant advice & suggestions. For once in his life might {the individual} be offered a relationship that…
This is the first part of a series on why Jungian therapy emphasizes the importance of dreams -- and why you might want to, as well. It's important to realize that the meaning of dreams generally does not accord with the dominant conscious attitude, or…
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…
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…
Work-life issues are not properly analyzed in terms of financial cost-benefit or markets. They are only properly analyzed in terms of individual decisions, and in terms of what the individual values in his or her life. Individuals can't offload their responsibility to find a personal…
I'd like to share a personal experience of mine through which I became changed, and, I believe, much more resilient. It's not that I'm trying to suggest that I've "got it all figured out", or that this set of experiences gave me "the key to…
There are many things in the 2010s that can easily make people feel powerless. In addition, the majority of us struggle, or have had to struggle with our own inner wounds. What we each need to meet our lives is what psychologists increasingly refer to…
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,”…
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…
Following on from my last blog post on trust and betrayal, the following are four truths about the experience of betrayal of trust. They are surprisingly easy to state. However, really taking in what they mean for our lives is likely a much bigger psychological task. 1.…