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While emotional triggers are often linked with trauma or equated to the impact of significant life events, in reality, emotional triggers are much more nuanced and highly complex. We have all experienced having our buttons pushed, and these feeling-toned expressions are not necessarily related to traumatic events. Rather, they are intimately connected to the nature of the complex. According to depth psychological principles, complexes are a feeling-toned set of ideas, perceptions, and associations that manifest as spontaneous and autonomous expressions. Furthermore, since these triggers impose behavioral patterns, they also guide our actions and even determine the kinds of experiences and expressions that move us forward, attract us towards one another, or repel us from each other¹.

While the power of the complex is often demonstrated through emotional disturbances and relational conflicts, even when the emotional triggers are not currently activated, they are still operating behind t...

Introduction to Depth Psychology

There are a large variety of theoretical perspectives when one thinks of psychology, but depth psychology ascribes to the perspective that psychological material which remains outside conscious grasp can create psychological problems. While the psychodynamic theory ascribes to this same perspective, the foundational principles of depth psychology still remain widely unknown. Therefore, both the implementation and practice of depth psychology still remain widely under-utilized in today's modern therapeutic arena. In addition, given that depth psychology is not commonly taught in most master’s level clinical mental health programs, the ability to forge and nurture a meaningful relationship with the unconscious often appears elusive, precarious, and inaccessible to many mental health professionals. As a result, the hidden power and potency of depth psychological tools tend to be overlooked and often remain neglected within the general clinical setting and...

Discover the value of Dream Work

Dream Work and the Therapeutic Setting

Work with dreams was an integral part of Carl Jung’s therapeutic approach and still remains a guiding principle in Jungian thought and dream analysis today. However, dream work is often overlooked in other therapeutic settings, and the potency of dream work as a modality and the depth psychological approach is often severely stymied in favor of cognitive behavioral approaches.  As a result, the unconscious material driving symptoms and neurosis is frequently overlooked. Consequently, the opportunity to bring unconscious content into the light of day gets undermined.

In order to enrich self-understanding, develop greater consciousness, and promote psychological wholeness it is imperative to access psychological material that resides behind the surface of ordinary awareness and penetrate behind the walls of the defense mechanisms.

When you incorporate the art and practice of dream work in the therapeutic setting ...