Beyond the relief of depression, anxiety, preoccupations, unpredictable feelings and the host of things we call symptoms in psychology lies another mode of working together – that of Jungian analysis.
Employing and deepening the thinking and techniques from its cousin psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis broadens the palette to go beyond family of origin and childhood to incorporate metaphors and imagery from mythology, art, physics, alchemy, and history. As such, it has been a favored way of engaging in depth work amongst writers, physicists, composers, and artists and scientists of every sort for a century.
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In analysis, we engage with deeper layers of experience that are often obscured by our day-to-day concerns.
These layers ground our moods, fantasies, behaviors, dreams, attractions and repulsions. In analysis, the goal is not to provide symptom relief alone – although this can often occur – but to engage with these deeper aspects of mind and event in a way that helps one find and construct meaning and purpose. To some, it can be encountering the meaning and purpose of a recurrent pattern in behaviors and choices, relationships, and career. To others, as a way of helping understand, frame, or create a larger window of visibility – into an event, a chapter, or even an entire lifetime.
The focus is on exploration and transformation, and everything from dreams, creative products, imagination, and a deep confrontation with the conflicting chorus of identities and complexes that exist within us are employed in analysis.
I have extensive training and a background in Jungian analytic theory and techniques, and have found that using these in tandem somatic-relational techniques often catalyzes contact with deeper aspects of our psyche. I am currently an analytic candidate at the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles.
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