Suffering touches every human life. When we learn to distinguish between necessary and unnecessary suffering, pain can become more than something to just endure.

An early figure in the psychoanalytic movement, Jung is often written off. But his ideas of the collective unconscious and emphasis on archetype and myth resonate.

We often treat symptoms as isolated problems. But what if they belong to a larger story organizing our identity, choices, and relationships in ways we haven't yet seen?

The sages foresaw that ordinary citizens would have to bear the resulting injustice and hardship. In response the most valued ...