by Jeff Howlin | Jul 30, 2013 | Dreams, Ecopsychology, Imagery, Individuation, Nature, Psyche, Psychology, Soul, Synchronicity, Unconscious
What does it mean to be alive? Most everyone can agree that a horse is alive or an oak tree is alive. But is a river alive? Are clouds alive? Is the psyche alive? We call something alive for different reasons—one being when the thing that we are trying to describe as... by Jeff Howlin | Jun 24, 2013 | Archetypes, Biology, Dreams, Ecopsychology, Imagery, Individuation, Nature, Psyche, Psychology, Spirituality
Ed Ricketts and backdrop of Monterey Bay I have written about Ed Ricketts before. His life and story still haunts me. Perhaps this is because I need to continue to write about his story and his work. But like all great mysteries, my quest for understanding what Ed... 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 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 24, 2013 | Child Psychology, Ecopsychology, Imagery, Nature, Poetry, Symbolic
There is a movie called House of Cards (1993), starring Tommy Lee Jones and Kathleen Turner. It is a story about a family, a father who died unexpectedly, a troubled young girl, and a big dream and vision. Tommy Lee Jones plays a psychiatrist trying to help the girl...
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