Once upon a time, great psychological thinkers bestrode the earth. William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Fred Skinner, ...

Carl Jung argued that emotional wisdom does not come from cultivating only what is pleasant or socially acceptable within us. Instead, it grows from a difficult psychological task: facing the shadow.

Shadow work is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on the parts of the psyche that people often keep hidden, such as trauma and resentment. Some people may refer to this as the “shadow self”. The ...