Shadow Work

Shadow Work in Monaco - Jungian Analysis

Shadow work is the clinical process of engaging with the unconscious dimensions of the personality - the parts pushed away, rejected, or projected onto others. In Monaco, where the performance of success and composure is constant, the Shadow tends to be dense. What cannot be shown cannot be processed. What cannot be processed accumulates.

What Shadow Work Involves

Shadow work in a clinical context is depth psychotherapy - conducted within a rigorous clinical relationship over time. It involves dreams, emotional reactions, projections, and the recurring patterns that reveal unconscious dynamics. The Shadow is most visible in what we find intolerable in others. The quality we cannot stand is often a disowned part of ourselves.

Why It Matters

The person who has done shadow work leads differently, relates differently, lives differently - not because they have become someone else, but because they have stopped being divided against themselves. Sessions conducted via secure video or in person in London, English or French.

About Dr Philippe Jacquet

Dr Jacquet is an integrative psychotherapist and Jungian analyst with over 25 years of clinical experience in London and internationally. EMDR Europe-accredited at the highest level. Addiction specialist trained at Hazelden Foundation and Hope-One. Only European with doctoral research on male eating disorders. Executive coaching trained at ESSEC (FT Top 10 European). Accredited: UKCP, BAAT, HCPC. Clinical supervisor to PROMIS Recovery Centre and Cardinal Clinic (CQC Outstanding).