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- Empathy on the part of the therapist or analyst lies at the heart of the therapeutic or analytic process. ...read more
- Posted: 05 / 25 / 2012
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- Follow-up, as the term implies, means collecting information or data about patients or making contact with them after the treatment or the research has been concluded. Just what is treatment and what is research? ...read more
- Posted: 05 / 18 / 2012
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- Albert Einstein once quipped: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." The same advice applies even more so to adults who should read fairy tales for themselves, often and reflectively.. ...read more
- Posted: 05 / 08 / 2012
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- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. ...read more
- Posted: 05 / 07 / 2012
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- Active imagination is a practice developed by Jung when he was engaged in his confrontation with the unconscious following the abrupt and brutal end of his relationship with Freud ...read more
- Posted: 05 / 06 / 2012
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- In the Raven, a very insightful Grimms Brothers fairy tale, the opposites constellate for the hero at 2 pm. ...read more
- Posted: 04 / 27 / 2012
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- Individuation has two principle aspects: in the first place it is an internal and subjective process of integration, and in the second it is and equally indispensable process of objective relationship. ...read more
- Posted: 04 / 24 / 2012
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- Individuation is a process of psychological differentiation and integration, of development of the individual personality. ...read more
- Posted: 04 / 24 / 2012
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- Eudaimonia according to the dictionary is a contented state of being happy, healthy and prosperous. Euthanasia means a good death, a painless death, a death of no suffering ... ...read more
- Posted: 04 / 22 / 2012
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- Meditation is another helpful adjunct to psychotherapy and analysis. Jung himself meditated in order to contain the powerful affects that were ...read more
- Posted: 10 / 20 / 2011
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- Dreams are an important source of information from the unconscious in a depth psychological approach such as Jungian analysis. Most dreams ...read more
- Posted: 10 / 20 / 2011
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- Exercise is an excellent way of regulating anxiety and depression without running the risk of the side effects associated with the use of psychiatric medication. ...read more
- Posted: 10 / 20 / 2011
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- The emotional red thread unfolds in the relationship between the analysand and the analyst. The analysand may or may not be consciously aware ...read more
- Posted: 08 / 11 / 2011
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- In my first Jungian analysis with David L Hart in Swarthmore, PA, I was introduced to the idea of the emotional red thread. The archetypal motif of the red thread begins with the story of Ariadne, in Greek mythology the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Minos had Daedalus build a labyrinth, a house of ...read more
- Posted: 08 / 09 / 2011
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- Freud made dream work,along with the analysis of the transference, the centerpiece of psychoanalysis. His book on dream interpretation served as a bridge to C. G. Jung early in their relationship. Jung took the dream work and extended it beyond the personal unconscious into the collective unconscious or objective psyche. ...read more
- Posted: 08 / 09 / 2011
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- My experience in analysis with Frau Aniela Jaffe was the centerpiece of my training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Frau Jaffe was one of the more remarkable people I have ever encountered. When I first met her, she was in her early 80s, an alert and seasoned analyst, very wise; she exercised the ...read more
- Posted: 07 / 07 / 2011
