Dealing with shame is one of the most demanding aspects of psychological work, and, in midlife transition, we can often face this struggle most acutely. Often in midlife transition, when people begin to seriously look back at their lives and review them, the experience of…
Neilsen's characters played in some hilarious ways with what Jungians call persona and shadow. It's as the character of police Lt. Frank Drebin that most people will remember Neilsen. Drebin always presented with absolute deadpan seriousness, completely the stereotypical image of a serious policeman while…
I'd like to share a personal experience of mine through which I became changed, and, I believe, much more resilient. It's not that I'm trying to suggest that I've "got it all figured out", or that this set of experiences gave me "the key to…
What is your attitude towards doing therapy? Is it something that you would ever consider? Is it something only for severely damaged people, or “sick” people? Or is it something that may be of importance for ordinary, everyday people? In recent years, many peoples’ attitudes…
Under the surface of suburbia, life is the same here as it is anywhere else. The endless communities of single family dwellings stretch out and stretch out, beyond where the eye can see. Yet beneath the appearances, there are a myriad of individual lives. People…
Jung's Red Book, which I wrote about in an earlier post, has created quite a stir in certain circles, and has been very well popularized. It has had quite an impact in cultural and literary circles, and has gained a lot of attention in the…
Anxiety Behind the Mask, Part II, The Armoured Self, My Prison In the course of thousands of years of mechanical development, the mechanistic concept, from generation to generation, has anchored itself deeply in man’s biological system. In so doing, it actually has altered human functioning…
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…
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…
Often people get to the point in life where they reach an impasse, and they don’t know how to solve a particular situation in their lives. There doesn’t seem to be a way forward and there doesn’t seem to be a solution. Although this can happen at any point in…