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The Mystery Duck: A Jungian Look at Circumambulating a Problem

by Jeff Howlin | Apr 5, 2012 | Depression, Individuation, Nature, Psychology, Psychotherapy

There are many ways to solve the pressing problems that occur in everyday life. I received this photograph with the title “Mystery Duck” from a good friend. His brother, a waterfowl photographer, had taken the photograph. They wanted my opinion concerning the...

Jungian Psychology and the Razor’s Edge

by Jeff Howlin | Feb 25, 2012 | Dreams, Editorial, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Soul, Sports Psychology

He had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable...

The Funny Business of Change and Psychotherapy: The Tipping of the Scale

by Jeff Howlin | Jan 25, 2012 | Editorial, Individuation, Psychology, Psychotherapy

I saw a middle-aged man recently exercising vigorously with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. He paused periodically to take deeper drags on his cigarette. There was a humorous side to this scene, but even more, it reminded me of the forces that hold us back in...

Waking Up Into the Night: Insomnia and Creativity

by Jeff Howlin | Jan 17, 2012 | Depression, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy

I borrowed the phrase “waking up into the night” from a James Hillman quote that I remembered from a column that I read some time ago. I liked it then, and I like it even more now as I was thinking about this quote recently during a mostly sleepless night. Hillman was...

The River, the Story, and the Rescue: A Waking Dream

by Jeff Howlin | Dec 10, 2011 | Careers, Dreams, Ecopsychology, Nature, Psyche, Psychotherapy

The river. The river was our life-line. The Missouri river, the longest river in North America, begins in Montana, flowing east into North Dakota and then south into South Dakota, where this story takes place.  The Missouri runs straight through the center of South...
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