Tag: psychology

• Magic Mirror On The Wall : How We See Others…

  The readers must see me on a roll, writing one post a day. Not at all. I am still the same, overwhelmed by my present. I found these writings as drafts. I had meant to post them over years, but just got too busy. This writing already exists on ezine, being from 2010 or thereabouts. […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  February 19, 2022

  Aging, Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, india, Kundalini, Marriage Counseling, Meditation, New Zealand, philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Religion, Religious, Shiva, Therapy, Third Eye, Uncategorized

  author, depth psychology, Health, india, jungian psychology, Kerikeri, Madhu Sameer, New Zealand, Northland, parenting, philosophy, psychology, religion, writing

• Transformations Thru Creativity

  I love gardening. I simply love it. And I love growing roses in my garden. I currently have over 200 of them. When they bloom together in early spring, I feel I am in heaven. Thousands and thousands of happy rosebuds open themselves up to the elements in a display that is beyond words. My […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  May 20, 2012

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Poetry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Uncategorized

  Carl Jung, depth psychology, Garden, Health, jungian psychology, Landscaping, mental health, psychology, religion

• The Quest for a Symbolic Father

  A paper I presented at the California Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) Conference a few months ago. I have edited out some sections and all case studies for reasons of ethics and confidentiality. Neurons contain representation the way a poem contains alphabets – Freud Introduction What do Saddam Hussain, Jeffery Dahmer, Charles Manson, Adolph Hitler, Jack the Ripper and […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  November 25, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Carl Jung, Charles Manson, Hero, Jacques Lacan, jung, psychology, Social Sciences, Unconscious mind

• Post Partum Depression

  I haven’t been able to write as much, or as frequently as I desire. This post, originally called Othering of the Mother, remains one of the most widely read posts even today, and so I take the liberty of reblogging it. —————————————————————————————————————————– Of recent, my psyche has gravitated  towards explorations in developmental psychology and the mother-infant dyad. […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  July 25, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Breastfeeding, Developmental psychology, Infant, Margaret Mahler, Mother, Postpartum depression, psychology, Social Sciences

• Desire as Metonymy

  “Desire is shaped like a metonymy.” I had read this several times over the years, a quote attributed to Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst.  I had attempted to understand this cognitively. However, it wasn’t until earlier today that the full implications of his statement dawned on me experientially. Lacan’s is a psychology of desire. His desire […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  May 27, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Poetry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Jacques Lacan, Metaphor, Metonymy, Name of the Father, psychology, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Žižek, Social Sciences

• On Aging, Death and Dying

  I haven’t been writing much lately. It seems that the words have died, that there is a dearth of meaningful emotions, of consciousness. In exchange, and as a compensation for that lack, I have experienced a slew of defensive strategies unfolding in my psyche, pushed into the external world. The psyche, it seemed, went round doing the […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  February 10, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Uncategorized

  Buddhism, death, Dissociation, Emotion, Health, mental health, philosophy, psychology

• Further Thoughts on Hope…

  I had planned on writing a more detailed expose on Hope after my return, but demands on my time are many, and so for now my psyche can only bring forth this brief piece. I am confident that the rest will show up in some shape or form in my subsequent writings, for the part of […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  January 7, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Poetry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Compassion, death, depth psychology, Human, Meditation, philosophy, Psychic, psychology, Sadness, vipassana

• The stretched psyche: The stretched string

  It is 8:42 on Friday night. I pulled at my laptop, wanting to write about Shadow element of our personality. However, as I start typing, the fingers seem to have a mind of their own. So here I am, sitting with a hand written article on Shadow, willing to transcribe it, but with a psyche […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  October 1, 2010

  Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Poetry, Psychology

  Alternative, M-theory, Mathematics, Physics, psychology, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum mechanics, String theory, Superstrings

• The Great Mother

  After playing with the developmental aspects of our physical, ego bound existence briefly over the last few weeks, the intuition spontaneously drives to exploring the archetypal, the collective and the symbolic aspects of the mother and the father in greater depth. These writings that follow are not my own ( cited the author at the end), […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  September 4, 2010

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Arts, Brahma, child, childhood, clovis, depth psychology, healing, Hinduism, jungian psychology, Literature, metaphors, Metaphysics, Mother, Mother Goddess, Myths and Folktales, non duality, philosophy, psychology, religion, Shiva, therapy, Vishnu

• Dismembering the goddess : Effects of gender wars and marital failures on young adults

  Abstract for a paper being prepared for presentation/publication Though feminists claim to have opened up the world for women, numerous positive and life enhancing qualities of the feminine aspect of human nature, especially the spiritual dimension of the feminine, has been denigrated by the very feminist leaders who claim to speak for all women. A […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  July 3, 2010

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Counseling, depth psychology, feminism, parenting, psychology, therapy, youth

• Depth Psychology, Non Duality and Memories of Paradise Lost

  Abstract Since antiquity various religions and philosophical schools have viewed non duality as a desired state of human excellence, a mine of human potential that leads to experiences of ecstasy and a panacea for human suffering.  For the purpose of this discussion, we define non duality a state of merged unity achieved from transcendence or […]

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  June 19, 2010

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Fresno, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Uncategorized

  Metaphysics, non duality, psychology, singularity, therapy