Category: Jungian Psychology

• Practical Parenting: Dealing with Childhood Nightmares

  

  Dr. Tom of The Stockton Therapy Network explores how helping your children make sense of their dreams has a positive effect on their psychological development.

  September 8, 2018

  Child Psychology, Childhood Development, Depth Psychology, Dream, Jungian Psychology, Life Coaching, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Psychoanalysis

• Practical Parenting: Time Management, Work & Life Balance, & Healthy Psychological Development

  

  It was 6:15 AM. I was returning home from the gym to begin herding my children towards their first point of destination for the day. A quick bath, check. Assuring that 6 bags were packed and ready to go by the door, check. Dressing a nine and a five year old, check. Shoved two breakfast […]

  August 27, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Child Psychology, Jungian Psychology, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Practical Parenting, Psychology

• Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha: The Convergence of Ego and Self Development During Adolescence

  

  Convergence of Ego and Self explores the importance adolescent identity development has on healthy psychological development and Self Realization.

  August 20, 2018

  Adolescent Psychology, Analytical Psychology, developmental psychology, Jungian Psychology

• Siddhartha: Archetypal Themes of Healthy Psychological Adolescent Development

  

  Adolescence emerges from an array of bio-psychosocial factors. While puberty occurs during adolescence, social factors also place increased pressure on children to become more oriented to adult capacities. It is common for adolescents to question the lessons they were taught during early childhood life; cognitively, independent thought comes online in conjunction with the physiological maturation […]

  August 13, 2018

  Adolescent Psychology, Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung, Depth Psychology, developmental psychology, Jungian Psychology, The Stockton Therapy Network

• Practical Parenting: It’s A Small World After All

  

  As a child, I remember watching the nightly news with my grandfather. I can remember the ticking time watch of 60 minutes counting down, as the news anchors would discuss factual events of the day, leaving the commentary for the viewers to work through on their own accord. Back then, it seemed like we were […]

  August 8, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Childhood Development, developmental psychology, Jungian Psychology, Parenting, Parenting Advice

• Early Childhood: Analytical Psychology & Perspectives and Early Psychosocial Development

  

  During his lifetime, Erik Erikson produced a vitally important theory of psychological development. Psychosocial theory expanded on Freud’s concept of psychosexual development, explored the overall development of a person throughout the lifespan, and provided a means in which to understand normal versus arrested development during specific psychological stages. In this essay, I will explore Early […]

  June 27, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Depth Psychology, developmental psychology, Dr. Thomas Maples, Individuation, Jungian Psychology, Psychology

• Our Archetypal Beginnings: Siddhartha, The Importance of Fatherhood, and a Jungian Perspectives on Early Childhood Development

  

  This article explores early archetypal development and the importance of fatherhood on early childhood development from a Jungian perspective.

  March 20, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, developmental psychology, Fatherhood, Jungian Psychology, Motherhood, Parenting, Psychology, The Stockton Therapy Network

• Dreaming Our Children’s Life Forward: The Archetypal Development of Siddhartha’s Early Life

  

  Childhood consists of a time when the paradoxical pull between a parent’s dreams for their child and the innate destiny a child will pursue spurs the process of development forward. I feel a joy in my heart as I watch my two son’s grow into their own being. When they laugh, my heart grows wider […]

  March 12, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung, Child Psychology, Childhood Development, developmental psychology, Jungian Psychology, Psychology

• Birth, the Miracle of Life & Archetypal Reveries from A Father’s Perspective

  

  A Father’s Perspective of the Miracle of Life The intrauterine life of the fetus consists of 40 weeks of complete immersion in the womb. This environment exposes the child to the nurturing and devouring nature of the mother archetype. While the child has direct exposure to both the physical and symbolic mother during their gestational […]

  March 6, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Childhood Development, developmental psychology, Fatherhood, Gestational Development, Jungian Psychology, Motherhood, Psychology