Author: Christopher Chayban At times I felt like I had to pinch myself because I wasn’t sure if I was reading about Janet or about C.G. Jung. It is clear the influence of Janet’s thinking on Jung. Much like how …
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Author: Christopher Chayban The onset of disease is always the imbalance, whether it be physiological or psychogenic. As I’m sure you know, with your Ayurvedic constitution, for example, when someone says you are a Vata, Pitta or Kapha, this is …
Author: Christopher Chayban I find that there is hardly anything or anyone that is really enlightening about the “enlightenment” period. It seems to me, these people were yes, seeds to Depth Psychology, but merely re-hashing or re-naming concepts that were …
Author: Christopher Chayban There is something of the primitive left and embodied in Mesmer and his “theory of animal magnetism, despite the entrance into the enlightenment period. Whether it be his dissertation on Astrology or his techniques that border on …
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Author: Christopher Chayban So often Patriarchy is equated with a hierarchy or hierarchical structures. It’s interesting because we associate the Patriarchy with the Rational Logos and the “Logical” Thinking function mind, when, in fact, hierarchy happens through the realm of …
Author: Christopher Chayban The alchemical texts were confusing to Jung because they had just resurfaced around his time and because he wasn’t a practicing alchemist. They are not so confusing any more and by that, I don’t mean Jung doesn’t …
Author: Christopher Chayban Jung even says about the mandalas of the Chakras that… “the symbolism of Kundalini yoga suggested that the bizarre symptomatology that patients at times presented actually resulted from the awakening of the Kundalini….otherwise be seen as the …
Author: Christopher Chayban In this post I will be talking about the healer’s total faith in his own abilities. Perhaps, this is part of the Christian teaching of having “faith” and almost a “blind faith” in regards to the religion. …
Author: Christopher Chayban In this post I will be talking about the split between primitive “Body” healers and soul or “psychological” healers. It makes me think of the split in alchemy, where at first it was one integrated science, but …
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Author: Christopher Chayban The relationship between early approaches to the unconscious and the later “scientific psychotherapy,” is according to Ellenberger an unbroken one to which, I beg to differ. “Historically, modern dynamic psychotherapy derives from primitive medicine and an uninterrupted …
