A case studies in Mississauga or Oakville or surrounding areas faces some key issues that recur frequently. Therapists in urban or rural areas face them, too, but they take on very specific forms in suburbia. Isolation and Connection It may not be apparent, but many people in suburban…
Does Jungian case studies with its emphasis on the Self have anything to do with job search? I emphatically believe that it does. The issue of job search actually takes us right inside some deep inner questions, if we let it. If we are open,…
In this post, I would like to try and say something about the places in which I believe I really found some sources of resilience. If I had to point to one single characteristic of this small group of therapists that helped me more than…
There are many things in the 2010s that can easily make people feel powerless. In addition, the majority of us struggle, or have had to struggle with our own inner wounds. What we each need to meet our lives is what psychologists increasingly refer to…
On June 26 and 27, the leaders of the G20 nations and numerous other nations met in downtown Toronto. For many living in this area, what happened in the course of those two days has something of the character of a nightmare in the collective psyche of…
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…
An article from the Globe and Mail of 12 May 2010 , “Working regular overtime linked to increased heart attack risk” raises some very serious questions about the way that we’re living now: //bit.ly/99TwPg The article cites a study published in the European Heart Journal, which finds…
A great deal of stress and anxiety in peoples’ lives is associated with making major decisions that deeply effect personal life. Very often, people come into therapy because they are hung on the horns of a major dilemma, with a decision to be made between…
