Episode 38 - Holiday Madness
As the holiday season approaches, we examine the tidal pull of the ancient, archetypal power of the solstice season. Because of this underpinning, together with the power of family narratives, roles, ...
20 Dec 201855min
Episode 37 - Narcissism
The myth of Narcissus constitutes the archetypal root of the character structure of narcissism. Aspects of narcissism run from the healthy developmental narcissism of a child to the toxic narcissism o...
13 Dec 20181h 7min
Episode 36 - Adulting: Leaving the Parental Path
What does it mean to separate from one’s parents and parental complexes—the attitudes and values that have been deeply instilled since infancy? How do we discern when we are in a parental complex, whe...
6 Dec 20181h 1min
Episode 35 - Loneliness
Loneliness is a deeply human and universal experience. Lisa, Joseph and Deb examine it from multiple perspectives: as it may be experienced in young adulthood versus older years; as reflective of the ...
29 Nov 20181h 14min
Episode 34 - The Scapegoat
The archetype of the scapegoat goes back to the ancient Hebrew ritual of using two goats to expiate the sins of the tribe. Sin, blame, and wrongness are also often attributed to others, and this pract...
22 Nov 20181h 13min
Episode 33 - Archetypal Dynamics of Gender Transformation
Lisa, Joseph, and Deb circumambulate the difficult issue of gender reassignment. They discuss the significance of teen girls wishing to transition and the current tendency to foreclose the meaning of ...
15 Nov 20181h 15min
Episode 32 - Slobs
What happens when one is held captive by the mud of messiness? We try to understand sloppiness as a defense against overwhelming emotions, ongoing enmeshment in the primal maternal matrix, a regressio...
8 Nov 20181h 7min
Episode 31 - Food Addiction
Compulsive eating is a complicated psychological and biological problem. Food addiction can be a way of defending against unmet needs by displacing emotional hunger onto food. We discuss how infant ex...
1 Nov 20181h 9min
