The Child is a tricky archetype to find within ourselves. The Child is the first archetype that the self identifies with. The Child has...

The Queen is the power behind power and the maternal influence on development. The Queen is the indirect power that we hold over...

The King is our sense of systemic power or our sense of power within society . The King is both the father of the family and of society....

Check out more articles and resources at: GetTherapyBirmingham.com Many therapists don’t bother with exit interviews when a patient’s...

What happened to the forgotten model of psychotherapy? TA’s assumptions about the psyche were closly highly reflective of the zeitgeist...

1. An hour is not just an hour. While you are paid to see patients for 53 minutes, you cannot treat them effectively unless you do...

Check out more articles and resources at: GetTherapyBirmingham.com In times of crisis like these it may not be a bad idea to get outside...

1. The Unconscious Jungian or "depth psychology", is primarily concerned with the unconscious world of the patient, and with how that...

Check out more articles and resources at: GetTherapyBirmingham.com Psychiatrists used to spend an entire hour with their patients doing...

Check out more articles and resources at: GetTherapyBirmingham.com I had a patient ask me one time if artists were narcissistic. The...

Check out more articles and resources at: GetTherapyBirmingham.com When I switch to a Jungian orientation in therapy with a patient I...

Sidra and Hal Stone outline several important subpersonalities in their book 2011 book Embracing Our Selves. What subpersonalities are...

Our fight or flight response was a gift that kept us alive early in our evolution while we were living in the wild. When we heard a tiger...

“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.” ― Martin Buber Our culture doesn’t prepare us well for vulnerability....

When I switch to a Jungian orientation in therapy with a patient I tell them that I believe that there is a dormant “acorn” in each of...

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps...

The Warrior archetype allows us to harness our own sense of personal power to face fear and assert our own energy against the plans of...

The Magician is intuition, education, and reflexes. In myth and legend the Magician appears in stories not to be the hero, but to aid the...

“For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in...

Our fight or flight response was a gift that kept us alive while we were living in the wild. When we heard a tiger growl, we either had...