Psychosocial Development

Archetypal Themes of Middle Life Development: Siddhartha and The Middle Path

Leave a Comment / Analytical Psychology, personality development, Self Realization / By / July 10, 2019

An psychoanalysis of Siddhartha’s middle-life development and the plight to achieve personal aspirations As I began the process of recollecting the reveries of middle-life and my associations to it, I realized that I had undergone a shift within my thought process. While I have primarily focused on my past in the reverie sections up to …

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Archetypal Themes of Siddhartha’s Middle-Life Development

Leave a Comment / Analytical Psychology, developmental psychology, Middle Life Development, Self Realization / By / June 5, 2019

Life, like the leaves of a tree withers away during fall, becomes weak, and eventually descends back to the Earth in order to nurture the future generation that will follow through the rebirth process associated with spring.

Practical Parenting: Raising a Child in Today’s Technologically Addicted World

4 Comments / Analytical Psychology, Parenting Advice, Practical Parenting / By / February 14, 2019

Got Devices? Wow, if we break the word de-vice down to its Latin base “de-vitium,” it literally translates to “concerning vice” (defect, crime, etc.). And we wonder why our children are so glued to their “personal device.” Aren’t we all in some way, shape or form glued to some (de)vice or another? As a psychotherapist, …

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Finding One’s Self in Pursuit of Loving Relationships: An Analytical Study of Archetypal Adult Development

Leave a Comment / Adult Development, Analytical Psychology, developmental psychology, Myth and Psychology / By / January 21, 2019

Dr. Thomas Maples provides an analytical perspective of adult development using Carl Jung’s theory of archetypes as a foundation to understand the Self-Realization process.

Siddhartha Gautama & Consummating Early Adult Life: An Analytical Development Theory

Leave a Comment / Analytical Psychology, developmental psychology, Life Coaching / By / November 13, 2018

As an adolescent, Siddhartha pursued asceticism. Having found a community of like minded individuals, Siddhartha began to form an intact identity that he could present to others. Through the development of this identity, Siddhartha began to test his resolve and undertake increasingly difficult tasks associated with Self-abnegation. As an initiate amongst the ascetics, Siddhartha met …

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

Leave a Comment / Adolescent Psychology, Analytical Psychology, developmental psychology, Jungian Psychology / By / August 19, 2018

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

Early Childhood: Analytical Psychology & Perspectives and Early Psychosocial Development

Leave a Comment / Analytical Psychology, Depth Psychology, developmental psychology, Dr. Thomas Maples, Individuation, Jungian Psychology, Psychology / By / June 28, 2018

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 …

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Counseling, psychotherapy, Marital Therapy, Stockton California

Alchemical Hermeneutics & The Lifelong Journey to Realize Self

Leave a Comment / Hermeneutics, Individuation, Psychology, Self Realization / By / March 18, 2018

Alchemical Hermeneutics and the Lifelong Journey to Realize Self explores methods by which we can understand the depths and language of our developing soul

Counseling, psychotherapy, Marital Therapy, Stockton California

Siddhartha: An Archetypal Journey Towards Self-Realization

Leave a Comment / Carl Jung, Individuation, Psychology, Self Realization, The Stockton Therapy Network / By / August 31, 2017

I lay the foundation for a lifelong developmental theory based on Carl Jung’s theory of individuation as it relates to the archetypal journey of the Buddha.

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