John R White, PhD, LPC, Jungian Diplomate

This paper has been getting a lot of hits lately. You might want to read it before the movie comes out :).

https://www.academia.edu/94989115/Jung_the_Numinous_and_the_Philosophers_On_Immanence_and_Transcendence_in_Religious_Experience

Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire: At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma This volume of essays, all authored by practicing Jungian psychoanalysts, examines and illuminates ways of working with individual analytic and therapeutic clients in the context of powerful and current collective forces, in the United States and beyond. One of Carl Jung’s central achievements was...

Adaption and Psychotherapy gives a concentrated but complete picture of Robert Langs’s adaptive clinical theory, and also expands Langs’s treatment of adaptation by examining Carl Jung’s theory of adaptation. This book articulates Jung’s positive and clinical understanding of adaptation in a way that allows comparison to Langs’s adaptive paradigm as well as a creative synthesis of the two approaches. The result is a development of Langs’s adaptive paradigm and an expansion of clinical theory and technique that is valuable for both Freudian and Jungian analysts.

Read the preface here: https://www.academia.edu/90664738/Preface

End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate Philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills examines the ominous existential risks that could bring about the end of civilization. He draws on the psychological motivations, unconscious conflicts, and...

Jon Mills’ books are always worth the read!

20% off during April.

Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire: At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma This volume of essays, all authored by practicing Jungian psychoanalysts, examines and illuminates ways of working with individual analytic and therapeutic clients in the context of powerful and current collective forces, in the United States and beyond. One of Carl Jung’s central achievements was...

Read the pre-publication version of my book chapter, "“Colonizing the American psyche. Virtue and the problem of consumer capitalism,” from Critical theory and psychoanalysis. From the Frankfurt School to contemporary critique. Ed. Daniel Burston and Jon Mills. Routledge, 2023, 211-230.

https://www.academia.edu/117160312/Colonizing_the_American_Psyche_Virtue_and_the_problem_of_consumer_capitalism

Abstract: While large swaths of US news media routinely underline oppositions between Right and Left, what each hold in common is psychologically more compelling, namely, an unquestioned commitment to a social system designed around consumer capitalism. Consumer capitalism in the US is not only seen but more importantly experienced to be simply “the way things are” though, as economic sociology has long pointed out, the basic components of capitalism are historically contingent and a far cry from the intrinsic nature of things. For the psychoanalytic practitioner, the fact that consumer capitalism has such a hold on the American collective imagination invites consideration of its nature as a psychological force and raises several psychologically important questions. In this chapter, the author first considers consumer capitalism as a psychological problem for individuals and, with the help of traditional Critical Theory, elucidates some of the ways in which collective assumptions and intentionally produced psychological habits seem to merge to form a collective complex around consumer capitalism in the US. Second, the author describes some of the psychological mechanisms by which individual Americans become infected with this complex and some of the consequences of this situation in the clinical setting. Finally, the author turns to an ancient concept largely unmined by psychoanalysis, that of virtue, as a notion which can potentially benefit psychoanalytic practitioners working with patients suffering under the influence of this cultural complex.

https://theconversation.com/reports-of-the-death-of-psychoanalysis-are-exaggerated-as-adam-phillips-elegant-elusive-writing-shows-224244

Reports of the death of psychoanalysis are exaggerated, as Adam Phillips’ elegant, elusive writing shows Writer and psychotherapist Adam Phillips is often hailed as one of the world’s great essayists. His new book – exploring the topic of giving up, among other things – is both erudite and slippery.

You can read the intro to my co-edited book, Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire at the link below.

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Here is a new book which I co-edited. Information, including table of contents, is included in the link:

Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire: At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma This volume of essays, all authored by practicing Jungian psychoanalysts, examines and illuminates ways of working with individual analytic and therapeutic clients in the context of powerful and current collective forces, in the United States and beyond. One of Carl Jung’s central achievements was...

As some of you know, I have a good deal of interest in the psychology of spiritual and esoteric traditions. Here is a recent interview I did on New Thought, a partially esoteric and partially depth-psychological tradition which focuses on how our mental attitudes affect our lives.

New Thought with Dr. John White Dr. John White is a philosopher, author, counselor, and Jungian psychoanalysist. He also writes and presents on esoteric spiritual concepts, including New Th...

Read the preface to my book Adaptation and Psychotherapy. Langs and Analytical Psychology (Rowman & LIttlefield, 2023) at the link below.

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These are links to slides on my academia.edu site from a four-part seminar I gave in the fall, on different aspects of Jungian clinical practice.

https://academia.edu/resource/work/115974355

https://academia.edu/resource/work/115974543

https://academia.edu/resource/work/115974660

https://academia.edu/resource/work/115974733

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It’s hard to believe that this paper is now ten years old, but there it is.

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🎙️302. PROMETHEAN INFLATION: WILL OUR CREATIONS DESTROY US?
https://thisjungianlife.com/prometheus/

Are we inadvertently summoning forces beyond our control in our relentless pursuit of innovation and progress?

Can we harness the power of our creations without unleashing terrible consequences upon ourselves and our world?

Prometheus and his brother, Epimetheus, were tasked by Zeus with fashioning all living creatures. They granted animals remarkable abilities – feathers for flight, claws, fangs for hunting, tails for balance, and gills to breathe underwater. When it came to humans, they had no gifts left.

Still, Prometheus loved his human creations and daringly stole fire from Olympus to provide them with warmth and protection. This act of defiance has inspired and cautioned humans for millennia as they reflect on Prometheus’ punishment.

Prometheus embodies the eternal struggle between conscious and unconscious forces within psyche. His act of rebellion, like the ego’s desire for independence, results in detachment from its unconscious origins. Wild archetypal forces become impossible to contain and chain him to a rock where an eagle eats his liver each day.

Prometheus’s liberation by Heracles represents the relativization of the estranged inflated ego with the unconscious, fostering growth and humility.

The relentless pursuit of Promethean treasures propelled figures like Oppenheimer and Madame Curie, Louis Pasteur, George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, and Elon Musk. As they extended their grasp into the boundless skies of human potential, these brilliant minds bestowed upon humanity invaluable gifts and some brought risks they could never have imagined..

My thanks to the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts for inviting me to facilitate their Advanced Clinical Program this past Fall. Thanks especially to the excellent, highly engaged participants.

Today is the ninth anniversary of the death of my mentor, Robert Langs. My book on Langs and Carl Jung can be found here:

Adaptation and Psychotherapy: Langs and Analytical Psychology A development of Robert Langs’ adaptive paradigm and an expansion of clinical theory and technique that is valuable for both Freudian and Jungian analysts.

For licensed clinicians interested in experiencing how a Jungian might work with clinical material:

cgjungphiladelphia.org

Thanks to the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center for inviting me to present on “Adaptation and Clinical Practice, Robert Langs and Carl Jung,” this past Thursday. Thanks also to the very engaged audience, whose questions and observations helped me to clarify what I was thinking.

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538117934/Adaptation-and-Psychotherapy-Langs-and-Analytical-Psychology

Adaptation and Psychotherapy: Langs and Analytical Psychology A development of Robert Langs’ adaptive paradigm and an expansion of clinical theory and technique that is valuable for both Freudian and Jungian analysts.