A capstone is the top stone of a structure or wall, or the crowning achievement or final stroke.  Here is a primal example of a capstone, the last dream that…

The discussion about Jung’s Diagram and shadow work presupposes an ego complex that is strong enough to withstand what could feel like moral criticism without the patient becoming demoralized or…

The Wounded Healer archetype, as emblemized by Chiron, provides the basis for Jung’s diagram. Chiron, a centaur who suffered a profound wound that would not heal completely, served as a…

The first time I saw the Coen Brothers film A Serious Man, shortly after it debuted in 2009, I was deeply moved by the opening vignette: a snowy scene in an…

Here is one of Jung’s diagrams of the interaction between the analyst and the analysand, which will help us to understand empathy from a Jungian perspective:  There are conscious and…

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…

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…

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…

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 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,…

In “the Raven”, a very insightful Grimms Brothers fairy tale, the opposites constellate for the the hero at 2 pm.   The time is significant because it is early in…

Individuation has two principle aspects: in the first place it is an internal and subjective process of integration, and in the second it is an equally indispensable process of objective…

Individuation is a process of psychological differentiation and integration, development of the individual personality. For Jung and those of us who follow him in the practice of analytical psychology, individuation…

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; in modern…

Meditation is another helpful adjunct to psychotherapy and analysis.  Jung himself meditated in order to contain the powerful affects that were constellated by his confrontation with the unconscious.  I have…

Dreams are an important source of information from the unconscious in a depth psychological approach such as Jungian analysis.  Most dreams occur during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, one of…