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I recently signed a contract with Fisher King Press to publish a book titled "Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey." The book is a psychological interpretation of blues music utilizing ideas from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Estimated shipping date is Sept. 1st, 2011. It will be available through Fisher King (fisherkingreview.com), Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.

Deep Blues explores the archetypal journey of the human psyche…

Auditory hallucination is common according to Daniel B. Smith. In “Can You Live With the Voices in Your Head?”, Peter D. Kramer’s summary of Smith’s 2007 book, Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination (Penguin Press), Kramer summarizes Smith’s data. Though many of us in the mainstream associate hearing voices with pathology, 39 percent of healthy volunteers said they had heard their own thoughts aloud. Another 13 percent of those who…

Many of us first discovered Joseph Campbell through the Power of Myth, a documentary series hosted by journalist Bill…

Nature is no longer of our concern, as humans – at least for a majority of humans that take part in todays environmental meltdown, which has burned (like the fuel in a combustion engine) for the past 100+ years.  The modern citizen in…

My main work in the psychology field has been working with blocked artists of all kinds. It's difficult work, not least because the block is so painful.

By the time most get to me, they have developed an elaborate system to avoid the pain -- like drinking, having lots of sex and innumerable other compulsive activities.

A recent article in the New Yorker describes…

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/withinsights/2011/03/15/inner-voice-intuitive-hour-with-jenny-sieck

Pacifica grad Jennifer Sieck interviews me on her Internet talk-radio show, Inner Voice Intuitive Hour. Follow the link to listen in.

--Melissa Chianta

The Night Is Jung

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I've posted a new article which includes a story exercise on my blog. It may interest you. http://livingstory-ny.blogspot.com.

Releasing Light in Dark Times through Storytelling

"I saw an angel in the stone and I carved until I set him free."



No one since Michelangelo has more aptly or succinctly told the story of creative process. In one sentence, the sculptor describes its stages: encounter…

Several weeks ago the Great Matriarch of the Lotus Sangha for World Social Buddhism Ji Kwang Dae Poep Sa Nim had an important perception and painted the Yin Yang Buddha painting. Shortly before the tragedy in Japan occurred, Dae Poep Sa Nim sent copies of the Buddha painting to the Sangha as a gift. Dae Poep Sa Nim explained that this painting helps to balance the…

As I’ve explained many times, I don’t watch TV, so the Charlie Sheen brouhaha didn’t enter my awareness until a few days ago when I came across the above  video.  Then I Googled and found a zillion articles and video clips in which every mental health professional on the planet, like Dr. Drew, proffers an explanation of Sheen’s…

It is Sigmund Freud who is credited for the discovery of the unconscious and is often called the “father of psychology”. Psychiatrist and medical historian Henri Ellenberger, in Discovery of the Unconscious, describes Depth Psychology as the key to exploring the unconscious mind. Understanding what lies in the unconscious--whether repressed, forgotten, or…

Is talk therapy going silent?

Not entirely, but the Saturday edition of the New York Times featured an article entitled “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy.” This is very old news to anyone in the mental health field — as a patient or practitioner. But it’s good to see that The Times has noticed.…

Where others had been too timid to travel, where many had been too short sighted to envision, where few had been resourcefulness to return: Jung was there. His impulse to discovery lead him to territories of taboo that where and have been too extreme for a great deal of our mainstream psychologists. He was interested in Tarot, astrology, physics, magic, the occult, UFOs,…

Please check out this featured except from my new book, Embodying Osiris by clicking on the link below.  I introduce it with comments about the uprising in Egypt that shows the relevance myth and history have for radical events still taking place in Tahrir Square today!

Myth and History…