John R White, PhD, LPC, Jungian Diplomate

John R White, PhD, LPC, Jungian Diplomate Life can be full of surprises, not all of them happy. There may be times when, quite out of the blue, you feel anxious, depressed, or just plain stuck.

Even in the midst of personal, financial and professional success, you might still find you are struggling emotionally, interiorly questioning, wondering whether all the energy and time you have put into your life is really paying off. Often, you may not know what exactly is troubling you and yet feel quite certain that something is not quite right inside. When it feels this way, therapy can help.

As a psychoanalyst in the tradition of Carl Jung, I assume that the various difficulties you experience are not only problems to be solved but also invitations to seek a deeper and richer life. The goal is not only the relief of symptoms but also a movement toward wholeness.

Please read, if you are considering going into training to be a Jungian analyst!
04/20/2026

Please read, if you are considering going into training to be a Jungian analyst!

A Zoom Open House Dialogue with Jungian Analysts from the Pittsburgh Training Seminar For those Interested in Learning More About Jungian Psychology

03/06/2026

Practicing Dream Analysis For Mental Health Professionals with Jungian Analyst JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D. Wednesdays starting March 18

Each class will cover an advanced theme in Jungian dream analysis and look at how to practice dream analysis with clients.

Register / More info: https://www.jungarchademy.com/practicing-dream-analysis

https://www.academia.edu/130441069/The_Jungian_Analyst_in_between_Life_and_Death_Clinical_Ethics_in_an_Age_of_PandemicTh...
02/09/2026

https://www.academia.edu/130441069/The_Jungian_Analyst_in_between_Life_and_Death_Clinical_Ethics_in_an_Age_of_Pandemic

This is a proof of a chapter I wrote for Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire (Routledge 2024). It focuses on death anxiety, signs of widespread death anxiety in the US collective during the COVID pandemic, and some ethical implications that therapists might want to keep in mind when death anxiety running high in the collective.

This is the proof of a book chapter, which links key ideas on death anxiety from both psychoanalytic and philosophical traditions, as a way of interpreting psychological states and behaviors prevalent during the climax of the COVID-19 pandemic in the

12/14/2025
12/14/2025

🛑 People often mistake DENIAL for stubbornness, self-deception, or moral failure.

Denial is actually a primal psychological defense that attempts to regulate which aspects of reality are permitted to reach awareness.

It can be viewed as a benevolent survival strategy, yet (like most defenses) it must ultimately be set aside for us to make full contact with ourselves and the world.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.

12/10/2025

Teaching About the Dynamic Mind: Then and Now with Jonathan Shedler, PhD (San Francisco) A new podcast episode 194 produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA ipaoffthecouch.org

12/07/2025

"Michael Balint thought that without reaching the core of the doctor-patient relationship and understanding its context, the doctor’s work is nothing other than what he termed 'apostolic zeal'. This refers to the health care worker’s conviction that only they, the medical professionals and specialists, are knowledgeable enough to help the sick. Such an attitude destroys communication, hinders cooperation in the treatment as a result renders the therapeutic encounter ineffective. It is then impossible to use the medicine i.e. the doctor himself and his relation with the patient. The key objective of the doctor according to Balint, is contact with the patient."*

Remembering Michael Balint, born today in 1896! 🎉

Quote from “Balint Group Training Theory and Application” by Bohdan Wasilewski and Lilianna Engel (2015).

Main Image / Balint Group, France.

12/07/2025

Today, December 4, we celebrate the birthday of Thomas H. Ogden (born in the United States, 1946), who turns 79 this year, and who once wrote:

“In one of the clinical illustrations of reverie offered earlier in this paper, I 'half-joked' that I was 'handling' my fiftieth birthday by refusing to believe it. In that example, I was (unconsciously) creating a metaphor for my experience of what was going on between the patient and me. The thoughts and feelings condensed in the half-joke represented a new form that I was giving to the unconscious experience of the patient's and my own 'handling' of that which cannot be controlled (ageing, dying, feeling shame, feeling insane).” p.727

Ogden, T. (1997) Reverie And Metaphor: Some Thoughts On How I Work As A Psychoanalyst. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 78:719-732
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12/07/2025

COURTING THE CRONE: Reclaiming Wisdom in an Age of Disposability with Jungian Analyst Muriel McMahon • SATURDAYS • JANUARY

Through Jungian analysis, storytelling, dreamwork, and reflective practice, we will learn to welcome her as an archetype of transformation, authority, and soulful discernment in our time.

Register / More Info:
https://www.jungarchademy.com/courting-the-crone-muriel

12/07/2025

Dr Jon Mills is a philosopher-psychoanalyst and Honorary Professor at the University of Essex, whose work bridges Hegelian philosophy, psychoanalytic theory,...

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