There has been a considerable amount of valuable recent research on changes to the brains of Americans as the result of 9/11, as a recent article on the Discovery website reports. The article relies on the research of Judith Richman and colleagues published in 2008 in the American Journal of Public Health , which concluded, among [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Anxiety'
Persisting Imprints of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
September 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, psychological crisis, psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, stress, Trauma
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Anxiety, Stress and Decisions
May 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Anxiety, decision, Individuation, midlife, Mississauga, Oakville, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, soul, unconscious, wholeness
A great deal of stress and anxiety in peoples’ lives is associated with making major decisions that deeply effect personal life. Very often, people come into therapy because they are hung on the horns of a major dilemma, with a decision to be made between two or more possible decisions or paths to take. As [...]
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Crisis
May 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, collective unconscious, complexes, depression, depth psychology, Identity, Individuation, inner life, Jungian analysis, psychological crisis, Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, soul, stress
Sometimes we can be overtaken by things that happen in the psyche. Such events can leave a person in a very vulnerable place struggling with intense anxiety, depression or stress. Often these psychic events are triggered by events in our outer lives. Nonetheless, it is their psychological impact, the things that they cause to [...]
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Here in the Middle Years of Life: Is That All There Is?
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Anxiety, depression, depth psychology, Hope, Identity, inner life, life passages, Meaning, midlife, Mississauga, Oakville, Psychotherapy, soul, stress, suburbia / exurbia, The Self, therapy
The great jazz artist Peggy Lee performed the following beautiful, highly disturbing yet haunting song in 1969, at midlife, in her 50th year: I doubt that questions get much more real than those in this song. And the question that Peggy Lee sings about here is of the type, that, for many people, can become achingly [...]
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Identity and Anxiety in the Film, "Up In the Air"
January 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anxiety, Current Affairs, depth psychology, Film, Identity, Individuation, life passages, Meaning, midlife, persona, puer aeternis, unlived life, wholeness, work
Make no mistake, moving is living. -Ryan Bingham "Up in the Air", directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Clooney's character Ryan Bingham is a full-time corporate down-sizer whose life consists of an endless stream of business travel ("322 days last year"). He moves from place to place, letting people go [...]
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Job, Identity, Anxiety
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Anxiety, complexes, Identity, Individuation, life passages, Psychology, Psychotherapy, The Self, wholeness
I don't know what might motivate an employer to choose to lay people off 3 weeks before Christmas. However, judging from the calls I received from clients and potential clients prior to the New Year, there were quite a few employers who took such action this year. Having been on the receiving end of such news myself in prior times, my thoughts and [...]
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Anxiety, Depression and My Own Truth
April 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, archetypal experience, Carl Jung, depression, depth psychology, Individuation, Jungian psychology, Meaning, Psychotherapy, stress, wholeness
According to a recent New York Times article, people in North America are finding their lives more and more embroiled in anxiety. This is a social trend that started prior to the start of the economic downturn, and which has been increasing since that time, if the mass media are to be believed. The Times [...]
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Stress, Anxiety and Basic Trust PART TWO: Coming to Terms with the Fates and Furies
April 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, depth psychology, Identity, Individuation, inner life, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Meaning, soul, stress, The Self, wholeness
In Part One on this subject, I looked at the connection between stress and our relationship to our own deepest being, the Self. In this post, I examine the way that stress plays out in our daily lives, and some possible ways in which we can reduce the impact of stress. In these economically stress-laden times, [...]
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Jung on North America's Anxiety and Individuation Dilemma
March 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, collective consciousness, Current Affairs, depth psychology, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Lifestyle, Meaning, popular culture, Psychotherapy, soul, The Self, wholeness
In 1931, over 75 years ago, C. G. Jung gave an interview to an American journalist in Vienna. In it, he laid out a description of what he saw as some of the central dilemmas facing Americans. In this moment, we are in the aftermath of the subprime mortgage and financial crises, and hopefully at [...]
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Stress, Anxiety and Basic Trust PART ONE: Rooted in Myself
March 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, Current Affairs, depth psychology, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychotherapy, soul, stress, The Self
Here in Oakville, Mississauga and the surrounding areas, many people are really feeling the impact of recent economic events. There is a strong sense that the last 6-8 months have brought a lot of changes to people's economic and business situations. Things are not feeling anywhere near as secure as they did even a year ago. [...]
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