The increasing, convincing scientific studies of the usefulness of psychedelics for promoting changes for the ego calls for analysts to take a position in relation to these substances. In appropriate cases, they may be considered as an aid to Jungian psychoanalysis, yet they remain controversial and outside the traditional realm of our therapeutic modality. The purpose of the plenary and this...
The mystery of the role of the brain in the formation of consciousness is the subject of endless philosophical and neuroscientific speculation. The ongoing, intertwined processes of the unconscious and the ego, what Jung defines as that which creates consciousness, opens the inquiry as to the role of the structures and functions of the brain in individuation. The purpose of this paper is to...