Psychotherapy for men is intricate, because our culture is deeply unsure about men's issues, or what males should do or be. While the women's movement has brought much real change to the way women view themselves, males in our present culture are often profoundly disoriented.
Truly wise case studies knows that you can have an experience of life events that changes your consciousness but leaves you in a state of profound aloneness.
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…
Psychiatrists in the United States have turned away from "talk therapy" or case studies with their clients because it was too time-consuming. Now the focus of psychiatric practice is most often very short meetings. One psychiatrist interviewed by the Times sees some 1200 patients for…
Listening is fundamental to all good therapy. Really, it's the key thing in meaningful human interaction of all kinds. Listening represents the power of someone else taking our story seriously.
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…
Jungian case studies and Jungian analysis put a high value on the uniqueness of the individual, and on the treasure that is the inmost Self. Jungians see symbollic reflection of the value of the Self as hidden treasure in many texts from the world's artistic,…
This post is much more directly concerned with the subjective experience of mind, and especially of body and instinct.... Modern humans can be very cut off from the instinctual basis of life, and even from being aware of our bodily existence.... But, even so, as…
If you're interested in quotations on Twitter that concern case studies, Self and personal growth, as I tend to be, you start to notice a very interesting to-and-fro of ideas about what it is to grow as a person. There is a deep division into…
I thought that I would try and say a little bit in this post about how a Jungian approach to dream interpretation might look like "in action". Here's a dream motif that appears sometimes in case studies, in one form or another, the motif of…