Episode 235: OCD: The Distress of Repression
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Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts; compulsions are unwarranted, involuntary behaviors. Though different, they often go together, for compulsions pose as protection from the imagined bad consequences of obsessions. They tend to escalate, demanding more time and attention: spontaneity is sacrificed to schedule, desire surrenders to compliance, and aliveness is stifled by stiffness.
OCD’s insistence on “rightness” […]
Episode 233 – THE INFERIOR FUNCTION: Opening to the Interior
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There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in. LEONARD COHEN
Jung’s system of typology—our characteristic way of orienting to the world—led to the creation of the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Jung observed four essential ego functions. Thinking and feeling are rational functions of assigning value and making decisions, and intuition […]