depth psychology

When people come together they create a couple, family, group, or national dreambody. They create and are created by others.

I’ve discovered that the body’s symptoms are not necessarily pathological, that is, they are not just sicknesses which must be healed, repressed, or cured. Symptoms are potentially meaningful and purposeful conditions. They could be the beginning of fantastic phases of life, or they could bring one amazingly close to the center of existence. They c

I believe that the individual of the future, like the individual today, faces the lonely task of transforming himself, with or without the agreement and understanding of those around him. He needs only to know that transforming himself means coming up against interiorized cultural edges. If this transformation is to occur, he will have to disturb t

Step 3 The Write-Up Write down your edges, the weird dreams you have been having, the body problems which interest you, the relationship difficulties and synchronicities which have happened to you, your professional situation, etc. Then write down your present focus. Do you want a solution to a problem? Do you want to know more about yourself? Or d

Jung often said that a way of reducing suffering is to find the meaning in a difficult event. Finding meaning reduces suffering by discovering its purpose. The same holds true for finding the meta-communicator or objective observer who stands outside of the persecutor-victim drama. If you are identified with only one part of yourself, then there is

Thank God Jung dug up the alchemists. They would have loved process-oriented meditation. In fact it is exactly what they did. They worked with the unknown, calling it scientia, meaning science, knowledge, or information. They worked with their scientia by meditating on what they did not know. This unknown they called the prima materia, the basic su

The appearance of the dreambody depends upon the channel in which its process appears. Thus, it may occur as a pain, as a movement, or as voices in the ear. It can also appear on the city street, as a shocking event in the world, or it can appear visually in dreams. When a certain dream motif fits a small group of people we speak of a local saga. W

spirit of your body, the dreambody, is a multi-channeled signaller which seeks your attention through your dreams, body symptoms, and relationship problems. Moreover, the dreambody is influenced by the world around you and, paradoxically, your dreambody is also the body of the world. Healing now becomes a very comprehensive task, and the term itsel

Body language is like dream language. It gives you indications that the conscious mind is not yet able to give. Once the mind is able to function in harmony with the body signals, the body automatically relaxes. If the body is tense, there is reason. The tension is needed, and shouldn’t be arbitrarily relaxed. If you can find and integrate the proc