Here is a quick video of Joseph Campbell discussing Jung's statement that religion is a defense against religious experience.
Monthly Archives: November 2011
The Goal of Analysis
On The Path I saw a post on the PsychCentral website this morning titled: Is There a Goal to the Psychoanalytic Process? In it the author, Leigh Pretnar Cousins, describes her original image of Psychoanaylsis as the endless “rehashing of every real or imagined detail of childhood, in a fruitless internal quest for The Answer to one’s […]
Thanksgiving Poem From Rumi
What Was Told, That by Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest. What was told the cypress that made it strong and straight, what was whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made sugarcane sweet, whatever was said to the inhabitants of the town of […]
Caring For The Soul In Grief
I read a recent post on the PsychCentral website titled, 8 Tips to Help Console a Grieving Friend. I believe this is a very important topic because our contemporary culture tends to repress and deny the fact of suffering and death, such that when they (inevitably) occur, we have no idea how to handle it. Consequently, we […]
The Evidence For Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
The therapeutic approach of Depth Psychology is psychodynamic in its nature. That is, it takes into account the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors in human experience. In many circles, psychodynamic approaches are seen as relics of the past. They have been replaced by quicker, cheaper, and presumably more effective “evidence based treatments,” such […]
Stories and the Soul
“From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have a better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced. …to have ‘story-awareness’ is per se psychologically therapeutic. It is good for soul.” ~ James HillmanOne of the fundamental ideas of Jungian Psychology […]