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Sep 25, 2023

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Photo: James Hollis with a statue of James Joyce in Zurich in 1985

In the past four years I have had elective knee and hip replacements, non-elective cancer treatments involving surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, and two major spinal operations as the vertebrae of my spine dissolved and fractured, possibly as sequelae of the cancer treatment onslaught. So, the last few years have been pain-ridden and constrained by various procedures even as I continued to work as an analyst when out of hospital. As a result of my uncertain but life-threatening medical prognosis, my wife and I recently moved to a retirement center. Through it all, I found that my medical situation was less on my mind than my work with analytic psychology. Even I found that surprising, and I can only conclude that the work of Jung and Jungians continues to animate, direct, and feed the life of my soul. If that were not the case, I would be collecting stamps, or knitting doilies by now.


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Jul 21, 2023

“Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere, except where we participate in the ritual of life.”

C.G. Jung (1950, para. 625)

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Some days cultivating peace of mind seems like an insurmountable task. Daily news can pummel one into feelings of overwhelm and helplessness as we bear witness – via the small screens in our hands or the larger screens on our walls – to global distress. Trauma abounds, from human mass migrations across the planet, to the community-shredding epidemic of gun violence – its relative proportion unique to the United States – to war and famine in too many places on the planet, to governmental oppression of entire groups of people. Add to what it reports, the news too often simultaneously reports on and fosters polarization; soundbites that salaciously satisfy as they defy historical and political complexities.


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May 5, 2023

The genesis of Whispering at the Edges began years ago with one of my analytic supervisors who often referred to the analyst’s use of reverie, and frequently illustrated her use of reverie with her own patients. She spoke of reverie in way that was both bewildering and profound. Her use of reverie was bewildering because it was difficult to see from the ‘outside’ how she arrived at the reveries she would access and utilize in analysis.

It struck me as profound because her use of reverie often seemed to facilitate the emergence of something new in the analytic field or touch on something deeply felt but previously unknown to the patient. Her facility with and confidence in her internal process of reverie became something I wanted to understand and cultivate in my practice.


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