The unconscious is not a metaphor. It is a functional reality — the part of the mind that operates outside of conscious awareness and exerts a continuous, often decisive influence on what a person thinks, feels, chooses, and does.
Most of what happens in the mind happens outside of consciousness. This is not a peripheral observation. It is the central insight of depth psychology, and it has been substantiated by more than a century of clinical experience and, more recently, by neuroscience.
Jungian analysis is a form of depth psychotherapy developed from the work of Carl Gustav Jung. Unlike approaches focused primarily on the past — or on symptom reduction in the present — Jungian analysis has a prospective orientation: it asks not just where you have been, but where the psyche is trying to go next.
Analysis, as I have come to understand it, has very little to do with repair. Something else is asked of it — something harder to name, and less comfortable to claim. Accompaniment, perhaps. Translation. The slow restoration of a person’s sense of themselves as the author of their own story.
He arrived with a very clear brief. He wanted to work on his communication style, his board relationships, his strategic decision-making. Coaching language. Clean, containable, professional. We spent the first session exactly there.
By the third session, something else was in the room.
He arrived with a very clear brief. He wanted to work on his communication style, his board relationships, his strategic decision-making. Coaching language. Clean, containable, professional. We spent the first session exactly there.
By the third session, something else was in the room.
He arrived with a very clear brief. He wanted to work on his communication style, his board relationships, his strategic decision-making. Coaching language. Clean, containable, professional. We spent the first session exactly there.
By the third session, something else was in the room.
He arrived with a very clear brief. He wanted to work on his communication style, his board relationships, his strategic decision-making. Coaching language. Clean, containable, professional. We spent the first session exactly there.
By the third session, something else was in the room.