The long path toward happiness is rarely a linear path and understandably there are a number of obstacles that can adversely impact achieving one’s goal regardless of scope and size (Fig. 1). Thinking traps often present challenges to the way we make decisions and socially interact. In fact, thinking…
Because one of the corollary aims of depth coaching is to come to terms with one’s personal myth, it is helpful to explore the work of the mythologist Joseph Campbell (Figure 1) who introduced the idea of the monomyth (hero’s journey)—the universal template that appears in literature, myth, religion…
Although C.G. Jung (Figure 1) does not go to great lengths to explain the concept of a life-line, that he introduced the concept deserves additional commentary. Jung alluded to life-lines only a few times in his Collected Works, which was limited to his essay titled “The Structure of the…
Clients frequently ask me “what is the secret to achieving happiness?” to which I respond matter-of-factly “there is no secret.” Happiness after all is a state of mind, and a state of mind is very difficult to measure. People do not achieve happiness but happiness happens to them. Happiness…
in Zurich, Switzerland, where he pioneered the word association experiment and coined the term complex. Jung collaborated with Sigmund Freud between 1906 and 1913. Theoretical differences gradually led to a professional rift between the two men, which culminated with Jung’s publication of Transformations and Symbols of the Libido in 1912….
The Eight-Function Model (aka Eight-Function Eight-Archetype Model) is a depth typological system originally devised by Jungian analyst John Beebe (Figure 1). The model is predicated on eight archetypal principles that correlate to the eight function-attitudes described in C.G. Jung’s book Psychological Types. Beebe suggests that each of the four…
The next and final dream in the series takes place a week later. The dream contains a number of similar leitmotivs that suggest a direct connection with the first and second ones. This is what the man recalled from this dream: From the outset, we observe the same basic…
The next dream in the series takes place a few months later. The dream contains a number of similar leitmotivs that suggest a direct connection with the first one. This is what the man recalled from his dream: The man is again accompanied by his wife and children in…
In 1936, C.G. Jung (Figure 1) first introduced his essay “Dream Symbols of the Process of Individuation,”. Jung (1944/1970) later renamed the same essay “Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy” and published it in Psychology and Alchemy. The essay focused on a series of highly archetypal dreams—over 400…
