Embracing the Shadow

This live seminar recording features the soft-spoken psychotherapist teaching and taking questions from some delightfully sophisticated audience members. His speaking style, occasionally halting but always authentic, communicates the kind of warmth that will make listeners feel secure, curious, and open to the possibility of growth. He says that the qualities in others that we envy or that make us angry usually represent hidden energies that are waiting to be explored in ourselves. Though his Buddhist foundations are evident in his calm and open manner, he's exceptionally articulate and nuanced about psychoanalytic concepts like projection, transference, and the collective unconscious. Personal responsibility and non-attachment form the core of his message, but there is plenty of accessible wisdom about relationship issues like abuse, addictions, and codependency. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine