Empathy

Empathy

Empathy on the part of the therapist or analyst lies at the heart of the therapeutic or analytic process.  Along with providing a temenos, or safe and sacred environment for…

The Importance of Follow-Up

The Importance of Follow-Up

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…

Fairy tales

Fairy tales

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…

Happiness

Happiness

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  In the felicitous words of  Thomas Jefferson, the pursuit of happiness, not the pursuit of success, is set out as a core founding…

Active Imagination

Active Imagination

Active imagination is a practice developed by Jung when he was engaged in his auseinandersetzung with the unconscious following the abrupt and brutal end of his relationship with Freud.  Auseinandersetzung,…