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In the last post we learned about M.J. Rose and her adventures in the publishing world. In this post, we’ll…
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Continue ReadingIntegrating the Shadow: The Light and The Darkness in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan
In the early twentieth-century, when Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung parted ways, the future of psychoanalysis was unclear. Sure, Jung…
Continue ReadingMore Fun with Sandy Florian
In the last post, we learned a bit about Sandy’s work, got a sense of her creative writing style and…
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