The Handless Maiden on October 26, 2020Drawing: Mehreen Anwar Marie Louise von Franz in the interpretation of fairy tales tells that Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expressions of the collective unconscious psychic processes. When you are reading a fairy tale you are entering the realm of the collective unconscious. They represent the archetypes in their simplest yet most […]
Rise of the Phoenix on May 3, 2020In these times of Corona, global uncertainty and fear, lot of our anchors like science, control, money, external validation and intellect are collapsing and people are naturally latching more on to their core defenses. During this quarantine, it is perhaps the rising fear – fear of being alone and without the distractions of entertainment and […]
Conflicting confusions on February 24, 2019The rising stress levels in our youth is a much discussed topic these days,and there are reasons for it. In the last decade our society has changed immensely, we are getting farther away from our core. Although we might be more advanced in terms of technology and have shortened distances with things such as face-time, […]
The luminous darkness on August 5, 2018That night the moon wasn’t shining, she was hiding behind the thick clouds and it was a dark winter night. She felt lonely; she was dependent on the sun for her own light and happiness. She had fallen in love with the sun a long time back. When the sun would give it light she […]
The spiritual dimensions of psychotherapy on April 29, 2018The order of our new world today has organised our lives around work and has given us an economic system geared to exhaust humans to their limit. Now we need to work for longer hours with both men and women working together to make ends meet. Our material lives and struggles to amass more wealth […]