Why would someone get psychotherapy for work related stress? There are a variety of reasons, but a key consideration is that the stress of work is often so consuming that it involves the whole person. Because it is concerned with healing for the whole person, psychotherapy can often be the most effective way to deal with problems concerning personal growth and work.
Entries from April 25th, 2011
Psychotherapy and Life Events… Consciousness and Aloneness
April 18th, 2011 · 8 Comments · aloneness, Identity, Mississauga, Oakville, psychotherapist, psychotherapists in oakville ontario, Psychotherapy
Truly wise psychotherapy knows that you can have an experience of life events that changes your consciousness but leaves you in a state of profound aloneness.
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Psychotherapy, Projection and Relationships
April 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments · projection, Psychology and Suburban Life, Relationships
Projection is a very common thing that we all unconsciously engage in, and depth psychotherapy is very concerned with how it colours relationships. If there’s something about myself that I don’t like, or don’t want to acknowledge, I can unconsciously start to see it in other people, and that makes me feel less anxious about myself and the situation. Although, depending on what I’m “projecting”, it may not make the other person feel very good…
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Psychotherapy and Renewal: Persephone’s Big Comeback
April 5th, 2011 · No Comments · analytical psychology, archetypal experience, Carl Jung, depth psychology, inner life, Introversion, journey, Jungian, Jungian analysis, life passages, mythology, personal myth, personal story, psychological crisis, Psychology and Suburban Life, psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, renewal, Self, soul, therapist, therapy, unconscious
The Persephone myth conveys a natural movement in psychological life For Persephone, it is only as she is detached from her familiar world, and descends to the Underworld that she can bring the blessing and the gift of the seasons, of new green life, and fecundity. Sometimes the encounter with life’s circumstances and with the unconscious can seem like a sudden plunge into darkness and descent into the underworld. But the underworld has its own gifts that it brings. Only those who can accept those gifts, and eat the food of the underworld, can bring the gift of life and fertility back to the “surface world” of their everyday lives.
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