Therapy | Brian Collinson

Entries Tagged as 'therapy'

Jungian Therapy, Loneliness and Life Transitions

January 11th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Jungian, Jungian therapy, life transitions, loneliness, Transitions

Recently, I’ve been struck by the number of clients who have come to see me in the course of undergoing very significant life transitions. The situations of these clients bring home to me a lot of significant truths about the loneliness experienced at such times

Jungian Psychotherapy & Career Transition in Tough Times

August 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · career, career transition, Jungian, Jungian psychotherapy

Career transition has a direct connection to Jungian psychotherapy because career and vocation are matters of importance to the inmost self. This is even truer in tough economic times, when people face hard situations and hard choices. Tough times push us back onto questions about the real meaning in our lives.

Why Anger Management Therapy is More Than Managing Anger

June 7th, 2011 · No Comments · anger, anger management, anger management therapy

However painful and difficult coming to terms with anger can be, though, it’s an important encounter with the undiscovered self. Confronting our anger involves an encounter with what Jung called the shadow, that part of ourselves that we can’t or don’t want to acknowledge.

Anxiety, Regret and Persona in “Death of a Salesman”

November 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Anxiety, Father, Marriage, persona, psychological crisis, Psychology and Suburban Life, regret, Self, soul, symbolism, unlived life

I was fortunate enough last Saturday to see Soulpepper Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Lots of people know the story of Willy Loman, the disintegrating salesman at the centre of the play, and the drama of his decline and eventual death. What’s worth emphasizing, though, is the profoundly psychological nature of this play, and the ways in which it deals with anxiety, regret and “persona”, or the false self. Clearly Willy is retreating more and more from reality and from life — but what pushes him into this?

A Video Portrait of Jung

October 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · archetypal experience, Carl Jung, consciousness, Identity, Individuation, inner life, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, personal story, Psychology and Suburban Life, psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, soul, therapy

Here is a video which I re-tweeted recently on Twitter. I decided to post it on my blog because I think that it gives a particularly revealing portrait of the psychiatrist CG Jung in his latter years. The video is taken from “Face to Face”, an excellent interview program hosted by John Freeman of the [...]

Escaping the Grip of Regret, Part 3: Through Phoenix Gate

August 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · complexes, depression, depth psychology, guilt, Individuation, inner life, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, regret, Shadow, soul, therapy, unconscious, unlived life, wholeness

Hopefully I have succeeded in making one very central thing clear: regret is not some peripheral thing in our lives that is going to be cleared away by simply improving our thinking. It strikes deeper. It is much more fundamental. How then are we to deal with the presence of regret in our lives? To answer this question in our own personal way, we have to meet this question for ourselves head on.

Brian Collinson

Journeying Toward Wholeness