What Heals? The first task of a therapeutic approach is to clarify its perspective on what constitutes psychological healing. For many people this might seem self-evident. Surely it is obvious that for a person suffering from depression, healing means eliminating the symptoms of depression? Likewise for anxiety and the myriad conditions that people bring to […]

Last week I wrote about the call that initiates us on our own personal hero’s journey and suggested that sometimes that calling takes the form, initially, of depression. According to Jungian analyst, Aldo Carotenuto, the symbol of the call is “the image of the person who breaks with the past, his or her preceding life, […]