Psychology

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…

Sometimes we can be overtaken by things that happen in the psyche.  Such events can leave a person in a very vulnerable place struggling with intense anxiety, depression or stress.  Often these psychic events are triggered by events in our outer lives.  Nonetheless, it is…

  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…

We live in a society and a time when this has become a burning question with which many men are struggling.  The old understandings of maleness and masculine identity don’t work any more, but what are we supposed to put in their place? Recently, I attended a production…

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…

  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…”…

There is no easy way with anger.  It can be one of the most powerful psychological forces that we experience.  As an old song once said, “anger is an energy” — and it can be a force for growth in a person’s life, or a…

One of the most fundamental questions a person can ask  is whether his or her life, taken as a whole, is meaningful to her or him.  This is different from an abstract question about “The Meaning of Life”.  There is no abstract universal answer to…

I’m enjoying the process of writing this blog on a regular basis, and having the chance to communicate with all of you about different aspects of what it is to be a therapist and a Jungian in Halton and Peel Regions in this continually surprising…