Liberation Psychology
Too often we use psychology as a tool of maintaining the socio-political status quo. What would a radical psychology of liberation be like?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
His great work is unfinished--what will you do to continue it?
Potpourri
Carl Jung
Carl Jung is my favorite of the classical psychological theorists. His deep commitment to the human spirit and to the numinous, allowed him to enter territory that most academic psychologists avoid.
- The shadow describes the part of the psyche that an individual would rather not acknowledge. It contains the denied parts of the self. Since the self contains these aspects, they surface in one way or another. Bringing shadow material into consciousness drains its dark power, and can even recover valuable resources from it. The greatest power, however, comes from having accepted your shadow parts and integrated them as components of your Self.
- Some of Jung's most beautiful and powerful words, words about the burden that mother carries in Mother.
- Psychotherapists are not perfect individuals. Each one is a wounded human being, much
like his or her clients. Is this an asset or a danger?
Entering the Shadow
The Mother Archetype
The Wounded Healer
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