The genius behind the methodology of Amplification was Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung felt that dream images are much more than just repressed infantile wishes and drives, more than connections to the circumstances of the day. They originate, he said, in the collective…

When I started studying psychology, particularly dreams, something came alive inside me. I remember the reading list in Psych 101 included Freud’s “On the Interpretation of Dreams” in which he suggests that dream images are more than what they appear to be. Freud’s method of association signaled the beginning of…

Dream Tending — what does that even mean? When you first start reading about dreamwork through tending your dreams, it can feel like you’re reading in a foreign language. Even if you’re well-versed in the psychology of dreams, the concepts and terminology of Dream Tending can be confusing at first.…

“The art of interpreting dreams cannot be learnt in books. Methods and rules are good only when we can get along without them.” (Carl Jung) There is a Zen saying, before you can be a nobody, you have to be a somebody. Before you can let go of the rules,…

Trauma or PTSD can occur after experiencing an overwhelming, life-threatening event such as rape, physical and sexual abuse, violence or natural disaster. But these are only examples of extreme triggers of trauma. In fact, most people go through life carrying trauma inflicted by passing comments from peers in high school,…