Our two-year-old son, whom we call the Dragon, has always had a hard time getting to sleep. Most nights it takes an hour for him to find a breath that is steady enough for dreamland. It’s often another half-hour before we can tiptoe out of his bedroom and quietly shut the door, our own breaths [...]

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Carl Jung said that analogy- making is the central organizing principle of the psyche.
In other words, we continually and spontane- ously create images to make sense of our lives.
To wit:
“I feel like my head’s going to explode!”“She thinks she’s my mother.”“There’s a wall between us.”
We perceive that many of the things we go through (if [...]

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