Shirley Halliday

Jungian Analysis

What analysis is:

• like going on a journey
• a process that takes time
• complementary with other treatments approaches
• Jungian analysis is rooted in the system of analytical psychology first articulated by the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist C. G. Jung (1876-1961)
• working 'in depth' or with deeper unconscious processes of the psyche
• working with symbolic materials, for example working with:
  • dream materials
  • paintings
  • drawings
  • myths
  • fairy tales
  • other expressions of archetypal motifs
• working with archetypal underpinnings of human experience
• a dialectic process between two persons
• a therapeutic method of treating psychological issues that concerns itself with interactions between conscious and unconscious elements in the psyche and the bringing of repressed fears and conflicts into awareness
• a therapeutic method concerned with psychodynamics, or connections between various parts of an individual's personality or psyche
• insight orientated work that includes a focus on development of the personality
• a process that combines reductive and teleological aspects to the therapeutic work

What analysis is not:

• a quick fix
• a 'new Age' therapy or approach
• centered on medications (although persons using medications can do analytical work)
• a cult

Who might benefit?

• a person who is motivated and prepared to work on their stuff.
• a person who has indications that they need to move into "the depths" with their work
• a person who wants to do deeper work

Who might not benefit?

• someone who wants a quick fix
• when symptom management is the primary focus
• poor motivation to do one's own work
• when someone else is paying

Presenting issues might be:

• relationship/family issues
• couples issues
• burnout/ work problems/ anxiety/ stress
• trauma
• mid-life crisis
• identity issues
• transition and crisis times
• search for meaning
• dealing with losses
• fluctuating feelings of self esteem

Possible outcomes of analysis:

• increased awareness about one's strengths and limitations
• increased capacity to reflect and consider (instead of reactivity as the first response)
• increased freedom from the compulsiveness of urges, fears, emotions, for example that can `drive one's life'
• changes in attitudes, behaviours and development of a sense of meaning
• developing supportive nurturing attitudes and behaviours towards one's self
• accessing creative energies within one's personality
• improved relationships with one's inner and outer worlds
• a balanced and healthy sense of responsibility for one's self
• acceptance of a conscious suffering of pain and guilt in one's life (the healthy stuff)
• an acceptance of who one is, i.e., achievement of as conscious a harmony as possible with those forces in the unconscious that are seeking a centering of the whole personality

Who/what is an analyst?

Other aspects of Shirley's private practice in Jungian Analysis:

• Leading and facilitating large and small group seminars & workshops. Topic areas include:
  • Introduction to Dream Interpretation
  • Advanced methods: working with dreams
  • Fundamental Concepts of Analytical Psychology
  • Fairy Tale Interpretation
  • Picture Interpretation
• Lecturing/public speaking
• Peer review & supervision