He woke up one day, and realized that he didn’t recognize his marriage, his partner or himself. He realized that things had gone on in a certain way for years and years, but that for a long time now, he had just been going through…
According to a recent New York Times article, people in North America are finding their lives more and more embroiled in anxiety. This is a social trend that started prior to the start of the economic downturn, and which has been increasing since that time,…
Carl Jung had the following dream when he was about to embark on a new path in his psychological work. The dream is of a type that is familiar to Jungian therapists, as it is a kind of dream that many people have, sometimes at key…
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…”…
In 1931, over 75 years ago, C. G. Jung gave an interview to an American journalist in Vienna. In it, he laid out a description of what he saw as some of the central dilemmas facing Americans. In this moment, we are in the…
Here in Oakville, Mississauga and the surrounding areas, many people are really feeling the impact of recent economic events. There is a strong sense that the last 6-8 months have brought a lot of changes to people’s economic and business situations. Things are not feeling anywhere near…
This is the third part and final part in my series “Therapy: Pain-Killer or Path to Myself?” PART ONE dealt with some of the familiar things that go on when people start therapy, and PART TWOfocused on “Five Things that Sustain Me on the…
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m planning to add some posts to this blog that are built around quotations from Carl Jung, in addition to the posts that are my own reflections. This is because I think that Jung’s own thoughts and language…