Psychotherapy

Does February bring us any gifts? How could it?... Here are some things that might be helpful to think about at this time. They've proved valuable to me, so I leave them with you for your consideration

Make no mistake, moving is living.  -Ryan Bingham   “Up in the Air”, directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.  Clooney’s character Ryan Bingham is a full-time corporate down-sizer whose life consists of an endless stream of business travel (“322 days…

  I don’t know what might motivate an employer to choose to lay people off 3 weeks before Christmas.  However, judging from the calls I received from clients and potential clients prior to the New Year, there were quite a few employers who took such action this year. Having been on the…

    Once again the Holidays have rushed to be upon us.  It often seems that, once we hit the first day of December, the calendar somehow catapults us forward through the month of December and into Hanukkah, Christmas and then the New Year. It’s a…

Here’s a quote from Jung on the key importance of the mother, father and family archetypes: How is it then, you may ask, with the most ordinary everyday events, with immediate realities like husband, wife , father, mother, child? These ordinary everyday facts, which are…

Can I get a witness? Some of you will recognize this phrase from R and B music; some of you may recognize it as a phrase used in the black church. But it's a phrase that has an awful lot to do with case studies.

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…

A number of readers have asked me about a certain quotation, and so I thought that I would write something about it.  The quotation is short, but it contains some important things.  Jung writes: “The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not…

Almost all therapists experience it: the phone gets more and more hyperactive the closer the calendar gets to December 25.   As the holidays get nearer, more and more people call. While for many people, the holidays may bring great joy, for many others, they…

Mythology is of great interest to /a-midlife-transition, and has been a matter of vital importance throughout the time that humans have been upon this planet. Myth-making is one of the fundamental ways that humans understand and make themselves at home in the world. Myth-making is…