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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 the stages of the sleep architecture. As sleep progresses, the periods of REM sleep grow longer, lasting up to 90 minutes at the 7-hour mark. [...]
...MorePosted 20/10/2011
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 practiced one form or another of meditation since 1973, a year before I became licensed as a psychologist and five years before i began my [...]
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Exercise is an excellent way of regulating anxiety and depression without running the risk of the side effects associated with the use of psychiatric medication. The research on the beneficial effects of exercise is more compelling than the findings for antidepressant medication. See the recent articles in the New York Review of Books about these [...]
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The emotional red thread unfolds in the relationship between the analysand and the analyst. The analysand may or may not be consciously aware of the emotional red thread; the analyst by virtue of his or her training and experience ought to be aware of the vagaries and vicissitudes of the emotional red thread. The analyst [...]
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Freud made dream work,along with the analysis of the transference, the centerpiece of psychoanalysis. His book on dream interpretation served as a bridge to C. G. Jung early in their relationship. Jung took the dream work and extended it beyond the personal unconscious into the collective unconscious or objective psyche.
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In my first Jungian analysis with David L Hart in Swarthmore, PA, I was introduced to the idea of the emotional red thread. The archetypal motif of the red thread begins with the story of Ariadne, in Greek mythology the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Minos had Daedalus build a labyrinth, a house of [...]
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My experience in analysis with Frau Aniela Jaffe was the centerpiece of my training at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Frau Jaffe was one of the more remarkable people I have ever encountered. When I first met her, she was in her early 80s, an alert and seasoned analyst, very wise; she exercised the [...]
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