by Joseph Lee | Oct 14, 2021 | Guests
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_184-Therapy-v2.mp3 “Talk is powerful medicine.” Renowned researcher and clinician Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D., joins us to discuss the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy. While so-called evidence-based...
by Joseph Lee | Oct 7, 2021 | Cultural Currents
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_183-Justice.mp3 Principles of fairness and justice have deep roots in the human psyche: we want to receive our fair share and a fair shake. When man injures man, we may protest, strive for redress, and measure...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 30, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Psychotherapy is essentially the work of making shadow conscious—all that we have not discerned then disowned, or projected onto others. We seldom welcome shadow, for it is marked by emotions and motivations that deflate, disturb, and dethrone ego. From family...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 23, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Laurenz Kleinheider via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_181-Self.mp3 Jung says, “There is another instinct, different from the drive to activity and so far as we know specifically human, which might be called the reflective...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 16, 2021 | Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Devin Avery via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_180_Social_Contagion.mp3 We have always been subject to the influence of others—it’s how we learn language, become socialized, cooperate and collaborate. It’s also how we...