by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 1, 2026 | Guests, Relationships, Therapy Related
When we ask AI for advice, what we are offered is comparable to psychopathy: a performance of warm emotional intelligence without care or concern for our fate. As today’s guest Dr. Aaron Balick has written, “it may have a warm exterior, but its heart is...
by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 24, 2026 | Guests, Therapy Related
This week’s guest, Jungian analyst Dr. Warren Sibilla, defines patience as the ability to live one’s life with eyes, ears, and heart wide open. That is a far cry from waiting to see what happens, or giving up. Patience asks us to go within, find...
by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 10, 2026 | Core Jungian Concepts, Guests, History & Development of Analytical Psychology, Therapy Related
Adaptation is a bread-and-butter concept in psychotherapy – can we accept, adjust to, and thrive in the outer and inner worlds we live in? Given constraints, what does it take to find life at least meaningful, hopefully satisfying–and...
by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 3, 2026 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents, Guests
Lindsay Clancy has brought renewed attention to the horror of infanticide: babies and children dying at the hands of their mother. Infanticide has taken place for millennia, most often due to social pressures or lack of the resources needed to raise a...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 27, 2026 | Archetypal, Guests
OpenAI recently had to explain to frightened users why their models kept introducing goblins and gremlins into otherwise humdrum conversations. Is it possible that archetypes are emerging through the field of collective knowledge amassed by large...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 20, 2026 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts, Guests
Magic can be viewed as intentional engagement with what Jung called synchronicity. It is closely related to a mythological worldview, which recognizes a grand narrative supraordinate to everyday life. Although we cannot know it in its entirety, it opens...