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When Grief Freezes: Dante’s Inferno Through a Depth-Therapy Lens
In Dante’s Inferno, the deepest suffering is emotion turned inward—grief sealed off from expression, relationship, and circulation. Dante’s vision amplifies how frozen grief appears in the therapy room, where telling the story alone is not enough for feeling to move.
The Compensatory Meaning of Dreams
Dreams often arrive when something essential has been left out of waking life. Rather than offering solutions, compensatory dreams present images that quietly restore balance—bringing neglected aspects of the psyche back into relationship with awareness.
Projection: Why Some People Get Under Your Skin
When someone gets under your skin, the reaction often feels justified. Depth psychology understands this intensity as projection—an emotional signal pointing inward rather than outward.
Encountering the Shadow: What the Psyche Refuses to Abandon
Shadow work is not moral cleanup. Rather than purging “toxic” traits, we encounter the shadow as unlived life—vitality and intelligence that refuses to disappear. In depth therapy, reactivity and projection become information, and what begins as symptom can transform into a deeper movement of the soul.
Dreams as Compensation: A Clinical Vignette
When long-held identities like physical toughness or performance begin to loosen, the psyche speaks through contrast. This clinical vignette explores how dreams help us register a shift in center of gravity, revealing which worlds remain inhabitable and which demand too much.
I Know This Place: Understanding the Psychological Complex
We don’t recognize psychological complexes through insight, but through repetition. They appear when familiar reactions take over — when something older steps forward and turns the present moment into an echo of an unlived past.
Why Dreams Don’t Tell Us What to Do
Dreams present images, moods, and encounters, but not direction. Orientation arises later, as the image is carried into daylight and begins to shift posture, attitude, and relationship in ways that cannot be decided in advance.