Synchronicity in Psychotherapy: When Meaning Manifests by Miyuki Maekawa
Synchronicity in Psychotherapy: When Meaning Manifests By Miyuki Maekawa, AJAJ, Japan Meaningful Coincidences: Beginning with a Personal Experience Meaningful coincidences may occur in psychotherapy. Although connecting “accidental” events with personal meaning can be dismissed as superstition or pseudoscience, Jungian analysts may encounter such events as psychologically significant. Let me begin with a personal experience. When […]
Synchronicity by George B. Hogenson
Synchronicity By George B. Hogenson, Ph.D. Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts In a review of The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, the collaborative project of Jung and Pauli, the German/American psychiatrist, Walter O. Jahrreiss, gives a succinct summary of the central issue involved in the concept of synchronicity. He writes: In this volume, the […]
Synchronicity: A Philosophical View by Harald Atmanspacher
Synchronicity: A Philosophical View By Harald Atmanspacher, Honorary Member of the IAAP Abstract The concept of synchronicity was first coined by C.G. Jung early on in the 1920s, and later published in his article “Synchronicity – An Acausal Connecting Principle” of 1952. However, the reception of the proposal remained somewhat mixed, since it did not […]
Jung’s concept of Synchronicity and its practice within Chinese culture by Kan Chen
Jung’s concept of Synchronicity and its practice within Chinese culture By Kan Chen (CSAP), China This paper attempts to clarify the Jungian concept of synchronicity by examining the understanding and practice of the principle of synchronicity in Chinese culture. Synchronicity as a meaningful coincidence grounded in acausal orderedness Jung experienced many synchronistic events in his early […]
Synchronicity by Joe Cambray
Synchronicity By Joe Cambray, PhD, CGJUNGNE, USA Synchronicity is a hypothesis that C. G. Jung formulated in collaboration with the Nobel laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli to describe an acausal connecting principle, in which the connectivity is established through meaningful coincidence. Jung further identified this type of coincidence as primarily, though not always, between an inner, subjective […]