Here’s a link to a good article about play therapy with kids that appeared in today’s (7/22/20) New York Times:
Play Therapy Can Help Kids Speak the Unspeakable
https://nyti.ms/2CSsdWD
During the first two weeks of this month (July, 2017), I had the incredible opportunity to teach, as well as provide Jungian analysis and clinical supervision, in a first of its kind in North America summer intensive program being given for a group of thirty-eight psychotherapists and scholars from the
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Many people who have some idea about the work of the Swiss psychiatrist, C.G. Jung (1875-1961) know that there was a time he worked with Sigmund Freud and that he was responsible for developing the idea of the collective unconscious. They may also be familiar with some of the archetypes
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More than five years have passed since the journey on the North Fork of the Koyukuk, far above the Arctic Circle. The rapidly changing tableau of the events of that adventure and their meaning continue to come into focus. What remains most poignant and alive is the sense of isolation,
In this entry I want to say something that could be helpful in deciding among psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and Jungian analysis. People offering these services may be M.D.’s (psychiatrists) Ph.D.’s (psychologists or other advanced clinical disciplines), L.C.S.W.’s (Licensed Clinical Social Workers) or M.F.T.’s (Marriage, Family, Child Therapists). These specializations each offer ways to
My job is to help people – not only with their “problems” but with themselves! The kind of growth that can happen in this way requires a trusting working relationship built on caring, warmth, support, consistency, reliability, and genuineness. While these personal qualities are important, the ability to guide someone through a change process also requires