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European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling

ISSN 1364-2537

2 papers in the library · 22 citations · publishing 2007-2015

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Exploring the meaning in meaningful coincidences: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of synchronicity in therapy

European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling April 3, 2015 Elizabeth C Roxburgh, Sophie Ridgway, Chris A Roe 16 citations

Synchronicity experiences (SEs) are defined as psychologically meaningful connections between inner events (e.g. thought, dream or vision) and one or more external events occurring simultaneously or at a future point in time. There has been limited systematic research that has investigated the phenomenology of SEs in therapy. This study aimed to redress this by exploring the process and nature...

C. G. Jung and numinous experience: Between the known and the unknown

European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling December 1, 2007 Leon Schlamm 6 citations

By exploring the shades of meaning of the ‘known’ and the ‘unknown’ in Jung's writings and the way they frame his engagement with numinous experience, this paper will demonstrate that Jung's never fully realisable individuation process, whose goal is the ego's acquaintance with the infinite unknowable Self, is suspended between the known and the unknown. The failure to individuate can be...