Human Thinking
What Is Intuition?
This article introduces the idea of intuition and asks if our intuition can both help and mislead us?
Human Thinking
What is Classical Conditioning?
This article explains Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning, and uses his dog-training analogy to introduce the theory, before explaining the differences when applied to people.
Human Thinking
What is Operant Conditioning?
This article introduces operant conditioning, a key part of our basic understanding of human behaviour and learning.
The Human Experience
How Can Anxiety Turn Into Fear?
This article explores the relationship between anxiety and fear. It explains how those two emotions work together to form part of a threat feedback loop, in order to inform not just about a particular threat, but also, its imminence.
What are Coping Responses?
What Are Defensive Responses?
This article introduces defensive responses, focussing on fight, flight and freeze, as well as the underpinning psychological thinking.
What is Self-Mastery?
Ghosts as Phenomenal Projections
In this article I review my article on Jung’s commentary, regarding ghosts as possibly projections from the self. In then view this from a phenomenological and Hillmanian “universal soul” point of view, and in so doing I open an entirely new universe of possibilities.
Human Thinking
Re-examining Jeremy Griffith through psychology
Jeremy Griffith’s FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition attempts something much larger than an ordinary theory of personality or psychological disorder. Griffith proposes a biological explanation for what he regards as the central contradiction of human existence.
Biography
James Hillman: A Biography of a Man Who Sought to Restore Soul to the World
James Hillman was an American psychologist, Jungian analyst, writer, teacher and cultural critic whose work challenged many of the assumptions underlying twentieth-century psychology. He is principally associated with archetypal psychology, a post-Jungian approach that places imagination, metaphor, mythology and what Hillman called “soul” at the centre of psychological inquiry.
Childhood Trauma
DNA as keys to Jung’s Collective Unconscious
Could we use our intuition in order to embody ancestral archetypes, using keys hidden in our DNA?
Existentialism
Classical Embodiment Vs Individuation
In Jungian terms, a deep, embodied relationship with a deity‑image could be seen as conscious ego and archetype entering into dialogue