John R White, PhD, LPC, Jungian Diplomate

09/23/2025

For mental health professionals interested in the basics of dream analysis.

Introduction to Jungian Dream Analysis For Mental Health Professionals with Jungian Analyst JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D. - WEDNESDAYS Oct. 22 & 29, Nov. 4 & 11, 2025

09/22/2025

✨🏛️Think of myths as the dreams of an entire culture.

Those stories reside in the collective unconscious and influence all of us throughout our lifespan.

Mythic patterns shape our attitudes, and when we recognize them, we can link our personal experiences to the universal.

Panicking? You’re under the influence of Pan. Sunk in gloom? You’re on a night-sea journey like Odysseus.

Jungians call linking the personal to the universal, amplification: take a symptom, link it to a myth, and you’ve shifted it from “my private defect” to “a shared force,” which gives us objectivity.

Jung noticed that when we lose awareness of the mythic, those patterns secretly affect us and tend to act themselves out, sometimes recklessly.

Today, we’ll help you bring these grand narratives into awareness and understand how they help and, at times, hinder you.

🎧 Listen/watch wherever you find your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment.

09/08/2025

Remembering Harold Searles, born today in 1918!

"I believe that Searles may be the contemporary American answer to Ferenczi. ... Like Ferenczi, Searles advocates that the analyst's personality and countertransference impact on the treatment and that the patient, even a very disturbed patient, can perceive aspects of the analyst's personality. Both Ferenczi and Searles have repeatedly emphasized the analyst's emotional responsiveness as crucial.

The most striking similarity, in my view the most important contribution of each, is the recognition that the patient's therapeutic value to the analyst is an important aspect of the analytic process. Ferenczi described that his patients learned something about themselves in the very act of contributing to his analysis and that their participation helped raise their self-esteem. ... With great similarity, Searles (1975) has advanced the notion of the patient as therapist to his or her analyst. Searles argued that patients suffer from guilt that they were unable to cure their parent's suffering and that only as they are genuinely able to aid their analyst can they enhance their own worth and feel more deeply a fully human individual."

'From Ferenczi to Searles and Contemporary Relational Approaches: Commentary on Mark Blechner's “Working in the Countertransference” By Lewis Aron (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1992):
https://pep-web.org/browse/document/PD.002.0181A

09/08/2025

New in PEP-Web Books!🎉📖

"The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-Evaluation" - Judith Trowell and Alicia Etchegoyen (Eds.)

▶ https://pep-web.org/browse/document/NLP.042.0000A

"Ideas of fathering and mothering go beyond child rearing. As states of mind at both the conscious and unconscious level, they have general application. Such parenting states of mind influence management and leadership styles in all organisations, even extending to the politics of nations and the relationships between nations. Fathering and mothering is thus not only a matter affecting those who choose to embark on the procreative process, it is of supreme importance to how all of us on this planet conduct our relationships."

Including the work of Ronald Britton, Peter Fonagy, Marcus Johns, Mary Target, and Clifford Yorke amongst others.

08/31/2025

"Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again."
— Anaïs Nin

Modernity’s great error: prioritizing noise over depth. Nin diagnoses our collective emptiness—the price of constant external validation. Reclaiming ourselves demands turning inward, where true identity awaits beneath the layers of performance.

08/31/2025

Book: Selected Letters of C.G. Jung https://amzn.to/4fCaVLA

08/26/2025