I am a psychiatrist and here is why I use astrology in medicine
It is around my 25th birthday that I jointly meet psychoanalysis and astrology; I then feel that there is a need to meet myself to give meaning to continuous discomfort. Chance or synchronization, the streams for which I spontaneously echo all psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (creator of analytical psychology or creator of depth of depth) and their work.
According to my medical career, I will become aware of the complementary of these two practices, as I present in my company today.
A story of language
Astrology is a millennium discipline that continues. When I am asked how I can believe in it, I explain that I consider it a language and not as a belief. In fact, astrology, whose derivation refers to the discourse of the stars, is a symbolic language, which is “passerby” towards self -knowledge. Antipodes of clarity and speculation, with which its history is promising, today’s astrology is non -relevant and non -perverseist; She invites you to keep an enlightened eye on our birth capacity and the way it comes to find our independent desire during our existence (again). But above these, as Great Bamman-Jung, recognized astrologer and daughter of Carl Gustav Jung tells us, she allows us to “understand the problems here and now what is that subject and what she lived. Helps to be aware about “”.
Thus, to detect the symbolic language of your “Inner Sky”, without departing from your personal responsibility, helps to identify your unconscious mechanisms to make an enlightened option, to know better. Because even if astrology can have a precious support on the path of life, it does not free us from a medical work when necessary.
A self -inspection route
Even if contemporary astrology is rich in many contributions from the 20th -century psychology, it is accompanied by Jungian psychoanalysis that it shares the most similarities and similarities. In its work, Jung has developed the concept of collective unconscious which will include radical and universal symbols shared by all individuals, as well as all humanity’s myths, legends or stories. The native subject will allow us to understand how a person incarnates these fundamentalists in his daily life. For example, the moon, which is particularly related to our feelings, our basic needs and our unconscious, will reveal itself differently according to its placement.
From the position of the planets in the exact moment of our birth, our subtle subjects thus describe psychological functions, areas of experience, challenges and scenarios. The “mirror” of our soul, in a way. This is through the recognition of all these parts or aspects (shadow as light) and by their settings in speed we can move towards the path of our achievement and the harmony of our presence. Jung called it the process of inseparable. “This is not a question of achieving perfection, but all,” he said. This is a complete issue of medical work, both the path of introspection and change.
A fertile negotiation
Like dreams and their symbols, astrology is a compass towards the revelation of who we are. Where it identifies and describes the unconscious “forces” at work, thus gives the key to understand the human psyche, the therapeutic process comes to find and deepen them. In this, he is irreparable. In some cases, the Natal theme comes to light or confirms what emerges in therapy; In others, it contributes to finding the meaning what we are doing, especially during the period of acute changes. We can thus compare it with equality because it gives “life” to signs, symbols, symptoms or events; Then he creates a link between what is between us and what is outside us.
Not all patients in my office are willing to ensure that astrology invites themselves to their medical approach; And I never make a compulsion! It is necessary that they are sensitive to this language so that it can take into the process. Often, in addition, patients with which I practice often consult me ​​for the guidance around their original subject. It also happens that the patient was sent to me by a colleague psychoanalyst or psychiatrist; In this case, the light will be restricted and complement its current therapy. For subjects mainly discussed, they worry about searching for meaning, burnouts, conversions, transgressives without forgetting childhood conflict, which is currently repeated.
Zerme guilement
Jéróme Guillament is a psychologist, writer and speaker. Trained on the Jungian approach, he is part of a humanist and integrated approach, with practices such as mandala, olfactory attention and hypnosis. Specialization: Shock and abuse, burnout and health, search for meaning in work.
Son site: https://voixetsoi.fr
To read: In my brooous body: flexibility pathJerem Guilement (New City, 2023).