Lisa Marchiano

The Vital Spark is now out in the world in print, ebook, and audio. Narrated by me! The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire a.co/d/fsKqB77

🚨 Interesting report on AI deception by the United Nations' scientific advisory board. Bookmark it below:

💌 If you're sitting with an important dream and would appreciate hearing our thoughts, please send it our way.  We love reading the dreams you send us.

@stellaomalley3 Oh my god!!! Congratulations!!!!!

I was having a crap day and then just got news that my PhD has been accepted! I’m so thrilled (although it’s hard to believe) So now I’m Dr O’Malley and I can finally say “I’m a doctor and I want my sausages” 😁😁😁 youtu.be/PUaYuVScT04?is…

📕✨Jung's Red Book (Liber Novus) is a deeply personal, illustrated manuscript he worked on between about 1913 and 1930. Join us on SATURDAY MARCH 28TH for a free seminar, in which we'll discuss how you might take inspiration from it to create your own unique manuscript.

@_jessebarron @GrantaMag I thought this was an extraordinary essay. Beautifully written. I couldn’t put it down.

Three more days to read this online at @GrantaMag before it slinks back into its paywall cave—

Some good news! Jesse Barron's "Transference in the Afternoon" is now free to read at @GrantaMag Is sex with a therapist an affair or abuse? A trove of emails may hold the answer. Gripping reading, best nonfiction I've read in a long time. granta.com/transference-i…

C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer:

📕✨The Red Book is foundational to Jungian psychology, a deeply personal, illustrated manuscript in which Jung documented dreams, fantasies, and visions.  Advising his analysand Christiana Morgan to create her own version of a Red Book, Jung wrote: “I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can … Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal … for in that book is your soul.” (C.G. Jung, 1926). Dream Studio is a seminar and workshop series where we explore art and creative expression using depth psychology, dreamwork and active imagination.  For this series, we’ll work with the advice Jung gave his analysand Christiana Morgan, to create a Red Book of her own. There’ll be seminars on Jung’s Red Book, creative workshops to help you work on your own Red Book, and case studies from Dream School students who are already Red-Booking.  This seminar series will run inside Dream School, from April 16 to July 23.  Join us on SATURDAY MARCH 28 at 11am EDT for a free sneak preview: “Your Personal Red Book: A Dream School Taster”.

This enrages me. Terrible outcomes are predictable, and then there are the worse outcomes we can’t predict. wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…

My presentation of psychic epidemics dionysophy.earth/podcasts/livin…

@dionysophy Thank you.

youtube.com/watch?v=ap_wfB… Strong recommendation for this episode on psychic epidemics, featuring @LisaMarchiano from This Jungian Life. This is a neat complement to my own study of psychic epidemics, which you can find in the next post.

Scottish Affairs magazine commissioned me to write about academic freedom - this is the (quite long!) article. Please do comment and share. tinyurl.com/2svnpt88

Jungian, Marie-Louise von Franz with an excellent passage on the unconscious.

🏘️ 📺 NEW EPISODE -- The pull to blend in once protected you; it helped you belong and stay safe. Now it shows up as doomscrolling, over-functioning at work, drinking to numb out, snapping at your partner, and chasing the next self-improvement hack. This episode shows you how to protect your personhood in a world that rewards the crowd. When you build an inner reference point, you stop outsourcing your conscience to the group. Join us this week as we unpack Jung’s 1957 essay, The Undiscovered Self. In its pages we find guidance to help us: 🚩 Know when we've been reduced to a resource and not a whole person. 🚩 Notice the effects of emotional contagion and think before we act. 🚩 Ask 'where's that in me?", rather than labeling everyone we dislike as evil. 🚩 Replace devotion to an “ism” with a personal value that matches who we really are

"Humans are not gullible because we’re stupid; we’re gullible because we’re social. As the cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier has shown, belief functions as a signal of trust within groups. We’re wired less for independent verification than for alliance." psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happin…

✨📚 NEW EPISODE -- This week, a Jungian exploration of the fairy tale, All-Kinds-of-Fur. In the tale, the princess survives by covering herself in fur and soot, and donning a coat made of thousands of different kinds of fur. You too may have built a costume in which you feel safe. That costume once protected you, but now it may be holding you back at work, creatively and in your relationships. This can look like hiding, overworking, numbing out, or letting people cross lines, because being unseen feels safer. Working through this ancient fairy tale can help you identify your own survival pattern and take the next step out of it. We cover: ✨ Identifying the “impossible promise” that keeps you stuck. ✨ Noticing your own “fur cloak” - the mask of busyness, perfectionism, people pleasing, or disappearing. ✨ How to start practicing safer honesty. ✨ The “30-minute return": using small windows to feel, speak, and be seen.

@b__lowey @sometherapist @MorrellMDmph @TheGroupLens @MichaelZiffraMD @DrLizaMD @scoeyd @camjenglish Thank you!

I'd vote for @LisaMarchiano - she's a Jungian analyst who's been writing about ROGD since 2016 and co-hosts "This Jungian Life" podcast. She also recently published "When Kids Say They're Trans." Fwiw I'm building dLogos for exactly this - lets fans nominate + vote on guests so you can see which episodes your audience actually wants. Happy to show you how some hosts are using it

Who should I interview in 2026 on You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist podcast?! Here's a sneak peek at who you'll be hearing from so far... @MorrellMDmph @TheGroupLens @MichaelZiffraMD And Psychedelics & Christianity roundtable #1 featuring @DrLizaMD @scoeyd @camjenglish

We seem to have forgotten that identities and opinions are the least interesting parts of people — ripples on the surface of the ocean of the soul, shimmering but shallow, pervious to every windsweep, irrelevant to the depths. An antidote from Annie Dillard: themarginalian.org/2025/05/15/ann…

A therapist is someone who is on your side but doesn’t always take your side.

@HormoneHangover That’s what I always say!

Why buy a boys Fair Isle sweater from Ralph Lauren for $300 when you can simply use $45 of yarn, 30 hours of labor, and incur permanent sanity damage making one yourself?