Getting individual case studies often can be the best thing for the relationships in your life, and especially for relationships with lovers and spouses. But isn’t getting individual therapy for yourself and hoping for improvement in key relationships a little bit like, well… “Dancing with Myself”? Billy Idol humour aside……
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…
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,…
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.…
Here’s a reflection-provoking quote from Jung on how we tend to see other people. “Everybody thinks that psychology is what he himself knows best — psychology is always his psychology, which he alone knows, and at the same time his psychology is everybody else’s psychology. Instinctively he…
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…