The Psychology of Weight Loss and the War Against the Self: Why Diets Fail

Whenever the will is placed in opposition to itself, the result is a neurotic conflict. It is not that complicated to understand. One does not have to be a psychologist.

DNA and The Unconscious: An Interview with Gene Qualls

Developments in scientific research continue to bring science and depth psychology into a closer, more meaningful relationship.

The Typology of Carl Gustav Jung or the psyche based on two polarities

Within psychology, little interest is nowadays shown in the study of psychological types. In recent introductions into psychology, psychological typologies (like those of Kretschmer, Sheldon and Heymans) are hardly mentioned.

Listening to Raven: The Shadow's Role as Guide

In the beginning, Raven created the world and all the animals, plants, and people we know to exist. But there was only darkness. Raven had not created the sun and the moon and the stars.

Rebellion of the Familiar

"Everything begins with the intermediary," says the deconstructionist critic Jacques Derrida. This statement is an apt way to segue into a further exploration of irony, since it is precisely in the intermediary that irony begins.