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Learning to See in the Dark

by Jeff Howlin | Mar 1, 2016 | Dreams, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Poetry, Symbolic

There is a fish that lives deep in the ocean dark The fish has evolved over time To “see” in the deep With a lantern as a light Just in front of its eyes A young man Who knew about this strange fish Had a big dream In the dream He was riding his motorcycle...

Dead Wood

by Jeff Howlin | Feb 6, 2016 | Biology, Depression, Dreams, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Nature, Psyche, Soul, Symbolic, Trauma/PTSD

If your life was like a tree, you would learn to be a master gardener. You would take the time to prune away all of your dead wood. Like the life of a tree, your process of growth and change can be hindered by the dead wood that is left behind. And like a tree that...

Transformation and Image in Adolescent Jungian Psychotherapy

by Jeff Howlin | Dec 16, 2014 | Adolescent psychotherapy, Dreams, Editorial, Imagery, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy

Society needs to be shaken by the aspirations of those who are not responsible. Donald Winnicott The image is to Jungian psychotherapy as thinking is to cognitive therapy. But there is a difference. In cognitive therapy, it is assumed that one of the events that leads...

The Psychology of the Unconscious (A Love Poem)

by Jeff Howlin | Oct 4, 2014 | Editorial, Poetry, Unconscious

the psychology of the unconscious is the psychology of the other the one that we seek whether it be a lover or another hidden down under   under our bellies and boils and foibles lies the other waiting to be discovered   discovered or not the other plots to...

Welcome to Your Process

by Jeff Howlin | Sep 14, 2014 | anima, Dreams, Editorial, Individuation, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Self, Spirituality, Unconscious

“Called or not called, the God will be there,” says the inscription above the door to Carl Jung’s home and on his tombstone. The same can be said for your own psychological process.  Name it what you may, choose to accept or deny it, but there is a deep, potent, and...
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