It's common to find lists to help people "cope" with stress. This post is kind of like that, but looks at stress from a /a-midlife-transition or Jungian perspective. This approach gets beyond the superficially, to examine human depth -- what /a-midlife-transitions mean when they talk…
To practice individual therapy in 2012 is to see how coping with change plays an ever greater role in peoples' lives. Many of my clients are forced to cope with a faster and fastter pace of change almost month to month. Change at work can…
Hope is key to individual case studies — especially for the Jungian therapist. It is always true that the hope of the client is going to be essential to the healing process of the psyche. But, especially in an age like ours, with the continual struggle that many face…
The term "mid life crisis" is a cliche in our society, which individual therapy must sometimes deconstruct. Now, don't get me wrong: a tremendous amount does happen to us at midlife. But it isn't usually the ridiculous caricature referred to in our society as a…
A case studies in Mississauga or Oakville or surrounding areas faces some key issues that recur frequently. Therapists in urban or rural areas face them, too, but they take on very specific forms in suburbia. Isolation and Connection It may not be apparent, but many people in suburban…
Projection is a very common thing that we all unconsciously engage in, and /a-midlife-transition is very concerned with how it colours relationships. If there's something about myself that I don't like, or don't want to acknowledge, I can unconsciously start to see it in other…
The Persephone myth conveys a natural movement in psychological life For Persephone, it is only as she is detached from her familiar world, and descends to the Underworld that she can bring the blessing and the gift of the seasons, of new green life, and…
There can be a strong connection between perfectionism and addiction, as Jungian case studies readily recognizes. We live in the midst of intense pressures that many experience as a continual demand to overcome, and to excel. For many, this leads to a gnawing, unending driven-ness,…
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…