Introducing the Aion Institute, a psychotherapy training institute years in the coming, designed for psychodynamically inclined psychotherapists who miss the rigorous and gravitas of graduate school but not the orthodoxy of psychoanalytic or Jungian training institutes.
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Manic defenses, viewed through the lens of the Kleinian model, are designed to counter depressive guilt and shame through flight into compensatory action and omnipotence. Manic energy is therefore shimmering and effervescent, distracting and intoxicating.

Psychotherapy is a way of saying: I do not need to simplify you to love you.

They are not afraid of life; they are aware of what it costs. And for those that nevertheless continue to abide the world, that is their courage.

The depressive personality carries grandiose responsibility without the reward of omnipotence. They go on, not for salvation, but out of a strange fidelity to the world.

From Integrated Analytical Psychology: Return to Freedom and Dignity.

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Originally a Sumerian succubus, Lilith becomes woven into Judaic mythology through midrashic interpretations into the backstory of the Torah.

Art credit: Leigh McCloskey