Dream Wisdom: A Guide to Self-Discovery
Shamans, mystics, priests, psychoanalysts, and neuroscientists have been puzzling over the same question for centuries. What can we discover about ourselves in our dreams?
When World Events Invade Our Dreams
Psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Thomas Singer on how dreams can reflect what’s happening in the world and can sometimes suggest solutions
How Do Personal and Cultural Complexes Differ?
Psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst Thomas Singer explores the different ways personal and cultural complexes affect us
The Orphan Within: Understanding Why We Feel We Don’t Belong
Why do we sometimes feel alone in the world, bereft of parents? The concept of the "orphan within" may help explain that.
Using Fairy Tales to Find Hidden Parts of Yourself
Fairy tales have enchanted us for centuries, but they can also be useful in clinical practice and for self-discovery.
The Healing Power of Poetry: Appreciating a Primal Pleasure
One of our earliest and most fundamental pleasures as humans is the sensory delight of language. Studies are finding that reading and writing poetry can have a therapeutic effect.
How Dreams Help Identify Areas We Need to Address
Jung proposed that dreams “appear as an expression of the self-regulation of the psyche.” What do your dreams say you need to address?
Dream Disturbances: The Healing Function of Bad Dreams
Jungian archetypes abound in fairy tales and dreams. What can we learn from them? What might they mean for you?
When Our Dreams Feel Like Warnings: Precognition, premonition, or coincidence: Are our hunches real?
How do we untangle precognitive knowing from mere coincidence?
Murray Stein on Understanding and Coping with Anger
Psychoanalyst and Jungian scholar Murray Stein continues his conversation about anger, its deep roots in our culture, and why it is now so pervasive.
Murray Stein on the Eruption of Anger in Today’s World
Why is anger so pervasive today? Psychoanalyst and Jungian scholar Murray Stein explores the many ways anger manifests and what it means.
Landscaping Our Own Gardens: Cultivating Your Essential Self
Gardens are a metaphor for many things, and one aspect we can explore is how they relate to our inner gardens. What are you growing in your garden?
What Ancient Traditions Can Teach about Coping with Change
“When you see your matter going black, rejoice, you are at the beginning of the work.”— Rosarium Philosophorum (1550)
Soulwork: Why Dreams Are So Important in Jungian Analysis
In Part Two of Dale Kushner’s conversation with Jungian analyst Kenneth James, they discuss the critical role of dreams in Jungian “soul work.”
Soulwork: What Makes Jungian Analysis Different
Dale Kushner interviews Jungian analyst Kenneth James about what makes Jungian analysis different, and why James considers it "soul work."
Can Dreams Be Prophetic?
Carl Jung and Abraham Lincoln experienced prophetic dreams during turbulent times. How might you tell if your dreams are predicting something?
The Things We Carry: What Objects Have Meaning for You?
What do the things we surround ourselves with reveal about us? Your curated collection of objects probably contains more meaning than you realize.
Facing the Tiger: Welcoming Anxiety’s Fierce Wisdom
What if, instead of trying to shun or control our anxiety, we befriended it?
Given Away: The Plight of the Wounded Feminine
What fathers sacrificing daughters in fairy tales tells us about the value of women in our culture
Trauma’s Lingering Effects and the Creative Self
Today we understand that trauma can be “inherited,” passed down through the generations. Speaking what's unspoken can move us out of victimhood.