“all human beings are pathfinders, hewing their way through a dense forest”
(The Gnostic Jung and Seven Sermons to the Dead, Hoeller, 1982)
Anne Donald – Jungian Analyst – Oxford
Why might you want to come into Jungian analysis?
If you are facing a problem and want to reach a solution or resolution.
If you are in a transition where something has changed in your life – either your inner sense of meaning or something in your outer world.
If you wish your life were a bit different.
If what mattered to you before no longer matters.
Or what didn’t matter before now feels important.
Come and take a look at what might be going on.
What does your inner world long for?
Our psyche is bigger than we think, our dreams and wishes tell us something important – who we are and what is important to us.
How do we live our best life, building our awareness as well as taking responsibility for our own choices?
To live is to have changed, to have lived well is to have changed often.
We feel comfortable with the familiar, but we can get stuck there with a vague unease that we are not living life to the full.
What is Analytical psychology?
Analytical psychology is psychology in depth, and is based on the work of Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist. He saw our issues and symptoms as an attempt at a cure. When we drop down to questions of meaning and purpose, not as general questions but as personal ones – what is the meaning and purpose of MY life? – then we are engaging at depth. Our dreams give pointers to our bigger self, identifying the questions we need to address and live into. This is a path to a more expansive view of life and a bigger personality.
“..there is in the unconscious something of great value – a kernel of gold an equivalent of the celestial sun in pure gold.”
(The Gnostic Jung and Seven Sermons to the Dead, Hoeller, 1982)
Anne Donald, Jungian Analyst
Whatever questions or problems we might hold in our outer life, no matter how intractable, much of the answer is to be found in our inner depths. Our inner world is vast, and we make so little of it conscious, yet all our potential is there - in the dark as it were. What is already achieved is no longer potential, it’s already realised. When we explore the cultural, spiritual and psychological aspects of our being, some of which show up in our dreams, new possibilities can emerge that are life enhancing. Gaining more awareness of our inner dynamics, eg our values and beliefs, or how we have been shaped by our history, can liberate us from unnecessary constraints and enable us to live with greater energy and freedom.
Anne is a qualified analytical psychologist with a practice in Oxford. She works in person and online.
Previously she worked in facilitating individual and team change in the corporate world, working in the UK and internationally.
