Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.

I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in

Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod.

On today's podcast we're going to be investigating alcoholism.

So we understand that alcoholism and addiction in general is a really big powerful complicated topic but we thought that we would drop

into a particular dimension around this that I think Jungian's can lift up really usefully and significantly.

So one of the focuses that I have when I work with people struggling with alcohol abuse or

alcoholism is at the level of soul or psyche what is it that they are reaching for and is there

another way to do that so when I think about even my own experiences particularly as, you know, a college kid back then,

How long ago was it?

That was a long time ago.

And thinking about my own experimenting with getting drunk and partying and the wildness that that provides. I'm in touch with this impulse to break free, to not sense

the limits of anxiety or lack of confidence.

It's very, you know, sort of Dionysian, you know, this sort of breaking the bounds,

you know, and kind of finding this sort of primitive elemental freedom something like that

absolutely and and how powerful how alluring that is and and how we can get trapped in that and thinking once we find alcohol as a path

to breaking outside of the limits of ourselves, we can be tricked in some ways into thinking

that that's the only way to expand beyond what we feel is hedging us in, or worse, even oppressing us.

Because I think many people that are vulnerable to alcoholism or currently struggling with it have a history of

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