by Jeff Howlin | May 7, 2013 | Depression, Dreams, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Symbolic, Unconscious
There is a great paradox for the psychotherapist in helping a client navigate through depression. On the one hand, life can be extremely painful and debilitating for a person suffering with symptoms of depression, especially for moderate to severe depression. Some... by Jeff Howlin | Apr 10, 2013 | Archetypes, Biology, Depression, Dreams, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Individuation, Nature, Psychology, Self
How do you fit the two million-year-old man or woman into your modern world? In other words, what aids this transition? I wrote an article last month called, The Ancient Path. It was about the idea that there is a two million-year-old man or woman in all of us. The... by Jeff Howlin | Apr 2, 2013 | Alchemy, Archetypes, Dreams, Editorial, Imagery, Individuation, Psychology, Soul, Spirituality, Symbolic
The Bride* The wedding and specifically the bride just might be one of the grandest of all archetypal images. We commonly associate weddings with the bride and the groom, but I’m going to make a case for the bride alone as a prime archetypal image and symbol for... by Jeff Howlin | Mar 26, 2013 | Archetypes, Biology, Dreams, Ecopsychology, Imagery, Individuation, Nature, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Self, Spirituality, Symbolic, Unconscious
I don’t usually write about my own dreams on this blog, but I had a recent dream that reminded me of an elemental truth. Here is the dream: I was riding a horse down a river with the water up to the horse’s knees, and I had a fishing rod in my hand and I was fishing.... by Jeff Howlin | Feb 4, 2013 | Dreams, Imagery, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Self, Unconscious
“There is a good thing on top of that mountain. I will make a straight line for it.” But the archetypal way is not like that; it is a serpentine way that wriggles and spirals its way to the top. We often feel defeated by it and brought to a standstill. It makes most... by Jeff Howlin | Jan 12, 2013 | Dreams, Editorial, Imagery, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Spirituality, Symbolic, Unconscious
For psychotherapists who practice therapy in a way that fully takes into account the totality of the psyche, they will be exposed to their clients’ dreams and other unconscious imagery that is mythical, archetypal and even religious in nature. Religious imagery is...
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