Individual therapy can potentially be one of the most important undertakings in an individual's life; so, how can a person find good therapy? Here are 4 good ways to tell whether individual therapy will offer what you really need.
Since 1952, the APA's Diagnostic Statistical Manual [DSM] has been key to psychiatry and psychology in North America, and has had a profound influence on much individual case studies. Yet, with the upcoming release of version 5 ["DSM-5"] the validity and scientific authority of this…
Part of what makes it difficult for men to acknowledge their own receptive dimension and their weaknesses is the whole dimension of competition and the threat of possible judgment from other men. Very often, from the youngest age, boys are treated with shame for displaying…
The key issues in /a-midlife-transition for men are not fundamentally different from the issues that confront women in therapy, but there are clear differences in the way that men experience them. This difference in experience is tied up with the whole meaning of what it…
Major life transitions are events that reach deeply inside of us, and they can often bring out our Shadow, that portion of the psyche of which we are unaware, and which we resist. This post looks at 5 ways in which the Shadow often shows…
In individual case studies for workaholism, it's a matter of key importance to understand what it is in the person as a whole that underlies this dangerous and destructive pattern of behaviour. As with almost everything in case studies, we can predict that this addictive…
Teen years and midlife years initially look so different. But there are two things that they have in common: 1) the individual is often undergoing tremendous life changes during these two periods; and, 2) individuals often have to find a whole new way to move…
A Jungian case studies has a passionate interest in symbols, and one of the most strikingly visible symbols in suburban life must surely be: dogs. Dogs are almost omnipresent in suburbia. Clearly, in our culture as a whole, and in suburbia in particular, dogs are…
Individual case studies needs to understand as much as possible about how workaholism can possess and consume the lives of individuals. If we take workaholism seriously as a form of addiction, what does that imply for the way we look at compulsive working?
There's a collective ideal of marriage and family that underlies suburban life, even to this day. There is an expectation in suburbia of how families should look and function -- an image. While that has changed somewhat over the last 50 years, it's not really…