Anxiety is one of the most common complaints that bring people into therapy. While it can be difficult to differentiate anxiety from healthy fear we all agree that finding an ally to stand with us makes a big difference.
Personal Issues
HEARING VOICES: when our complexes begin to speak
The standard psychiatric understanding of auditory hallucinations is that they are a symptom of serious mental illness, and ought to be treated with antipsychotic medication, but could there other ways of understanding this phenomenon?
ALCOHOLISM: Bill W. and Jung
Is alcohol dependence a misplaced expression of a spiritual thirst, or a collapse into a regressed and infantile state? We discuss Jung’s involvement in the establishment of Alcoholics Anonymous.
SHAME: confronting the bonds of dread
What’s the difference between shaming, being ashamed, and being shameless? Which of these is most alive in the culture right now? Why do we feel existential shame, and how can it be healed?