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Brian Collinson

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

I'm a psychotherapist in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and my practice includes clients from throughout Oakville, Mississauga, Halton and Peel Regions, and the City of Hamilton

Interests: Jungian, Analytical and Archetypal Psychology; Mythology and Folklore, especially Greek, Hindu and North American First Nations and Australian Aborigine; Live Theatre! This is truly a passion! I LOVE going to plays!; Anthropology, and especially the anthropology and sociology of suburbia and North American contemporary life; Literature, especially Herman Hesse, Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, William Blake, Rilke, Walt Whitman, Alan Ginsberg; Film, especially Bergman, Fassbinder, Louis Malle, Kirosawa, Kubrick, Errol Morris' docs; Jazz- Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Michael Brecker -- and Sonny Rollins, the most jaw-dropping live improvisor I have EVER seen.

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"Stuck"

One of the common experiences that brings people into therapy is the feeling of being "stuck". This is an expression that people commonly use to describe the experience of being brought up again and again against some psychological issue that... Continue reading

Posted Apr 23, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Unconscious Burdens: From Mothers and Fathers, to Children, and Beyond....

A therapist sees them all the time: the intergenerational patterns that weave themselves into the lives of families. The heavy weights that get passed down from generation to generation, with people often being unaware that this process is even going... Continue reading

Posted Mar 28, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Thanks for your comments, Sabrina. I think many of us feel the strength of that connection to the place where we grew up. It's something that I think is with a lot of us for our whole lives. And often there's a whole range of emotions that go with it. I'm sure that you will never entirely lose the emotional connection with that original family home. You will change and invest yourself in a new home, but the connection will always be there, in some form. All the best!

Commented Mar 24, 2010 on The Symbolic Power of Home, Part 1: Michaelle Jean at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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The Symbolic Power of Home, Part 1: Michaelle Jean

I think that many Canadians' imagination and empathy has been caught by news stories of our Governor General, Michaelle Jean, who has been in the news here quite a bit this week. Her Excellency is herself a native of Haiti... Continue reading

Posted Mar 16, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Women, Men and Marilyn Monroe

Few people have gripped the imagination of popular culture in the era since World War II like Marilyn Monroe. An iconic and fateful figure for both women and men. A figure combining elements of both the erotic goddess and the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Here in the Middle Years of Life: Is That All There Is?

The great jazz artist Peggy Lee performed the following beautiful, highly disturbing yet haunting song in 1969, at midlife, in her 50th year: I doubt that questions get much more real than those in this song. And the question that... Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Beyond Cookie-Cutter Psychotherapy

In recent years, there have been certain strong and notable trends emerging in the field of psychotherapy. Some have been very valuable, but some, unfortunately, have not been for the better. In many cases what's on offer doesn't seem to... Continue reading

Posted Feb 22, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Between Childrens' and Parents' Needs: the Generational Anxiety Sandwich

In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of "taboo" about it. For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years. There are greater... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Sounds like a great idea, Elona. I think being a teenager anywhere in February might potentially suck. Your idea of getting them thinking about what's important in their own lives is great. It could well get them thinking about what Jung calls their "hero journey", that is the process of claiming their own story and moving out into lives that they can feel are authentically theirs. Hope it goes splendidly!

Commented Feb 1, 2010 on Does February Bring Any GIfts? at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Does February Bring Any GIfts?

Does February bring us any gifts? How could it?... Here are some things that might be helpful to think about at this time. They've proved valuable to me, so I leave them with you for your consideration Continue reading

Posted Jan 31, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Identity and Anxiety in the Film, "Up In the Air"

Make no mistake, moving is living. -Ryan Bingham "Up in the Air", directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Clooney's character Ryan Bingham is a full-time corporate down-sizer whose life consists of an endless stream... Continue reading

Posted Jan 22, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Seeking for Depth

In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on what are called "brief psychotherapies" by the therapeutic profession. The emphasis has been on providing very short courses of psychotherapy to individuals, with an eye to providing concrete... Continue reading

Posted Jan 18, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Exploring Liber Novis: Jung's Red Book

This voyage of exploration will go on for a very long time, I expect. To really plumb the depths of the Red Book is a feat not lightly or easily acheived. Continue reading

Posted Jan 15, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Job, Identity, Anxiety

I don't know what might motivate an employer to choose to lay people off 3 weeks before Christmas. However, judging from the calls I received from clients and potential clients prior to the New Year, there were quite a few... Continue reading

Posted Jan 13, 2010 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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Remembering and Renewal

New Year's Eve and the New Year, with all its joy, and its bittersweet recollection of another year gone by, will soon be here. Another year of memories, and another year of living behind us, with everything that entails. For... Continue reading

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The Holly and the Ivy

Once again the Holidays have rushed to be upon us. It often seems that, once we hit the first day of December, the calendar somehow catapults us forward through the month of December and into Hanukkah, Christmas and then the... Continue reading

Posted Dec 19, 2009 at Vibrant Jung Thing: Jungian Images and Reflections

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