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Carrying the Weight: Murder and When Forgiveness Never Comes

by Jeff Howlin | May 30, 2012 | Archetypes, Editorial, Ethics, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Spirituality

We all want to be forgiven. Sooner or later, we all think about saying these words: “I am sorry. Please forgive me.” By the time we choose to say these words, we have often reflected long and hard about our past transgression. When we decide that we are...

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...

An Ethical Viewpoint, Collective Guilt and an Unpublished Letter from Viktor Frankl

by Jeff Howlin | Feb 16, 2012 | Depression, Dreams, Editorial, Ethics, Psychology, Psychotherapy

I came to receive a copy of this unpublished letter from Viktor Frankl while doing a psychology internship through a VA system outpatient clinic. At that time I worked primarily with Vietnam veterans suffering from PTSD. A university classmate of mine, who was a...

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...

Life as a Battle: Sometimes You Need to Pick up a Sword or Die.

by Jeff Howlin | Jul 10, 2011 | Depression

Life can be extremely difficult at times.  Sooner or later, everyone learns this.  What is sometimes missing from this life lesson, however, is that we have a choice of accepting this phase of our life, and fighting, or giving in to despair.  People with a serious and...

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