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 Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a young

Ian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian

analyst on Cape Cod. Hello everyone.

We've been asked by a number of people to talk about what is unique about

Jungian analysis and in fact to even talk about what Jungian analysis really is.

So we are going to walk around it,

look at it from a number of angles,

not be very left-brained about this in terms of just laying out a lot of facts but hope to

give you a sense of what Jungian analysis is like, what it's about, and what you might hope for from such an analysis.

So Lisa, Joseph, here we go.

You know, I definitely, it's not uncommon for someone to begin working with me or to call me and wanting to explore working with me and perhaps the person has read a little bit about young know, something about it, and says,

what is this anyway?

How is this maybe different from other therapy experiences

that I've had?

And it's always a little challenging to answer that question, but one of the first things that always comes up for me,

one of the ways that I think about how having a Jungian orientation is so different from other schools of thought is that, you know, Jung believed

that essentially we're all throughout our lives, we're all going through a process of becoming more whole and that when we get blocked in that becoming more whole, that's when we become symptomatic.

That's when we become symptomatic. That's when we experience depression or anxiety or we have

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