" The more I see, the less I know for sure. " — John Lennon
by DR. CARDER STOUT We live in the age of addiction. It is a time of unbridled desire and reckless overconsumption. Addicts seem to be everywhere. We point our fingers at the drunks stumbling down the street and recognize the drug-addled miscreants shuffling behind abandoned buildings in the bad sections of town. Addiction may have…
Continue ReadingYour psyche is trying to talk to you — listen to it. Have you ever woken up from a dream that had you really scratching your head, wondering what the heck it really means? The famous Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung analyzed 20,000 dreams over the course of his lifetime and theorized that dreams were…
Continue ReadingDr. Carder Stout came late to the world of psychotherapy: After working for Warner Brothers and then branching out to do his own thing in the film industry, he went back to school for his Masters in Psychology in 2004. One of the lovely things about Carder’s approach is that his goal with all patients…
Continue ReadingThis Question came from a woman named Beatrice who was concerned that her dreams were ordinary. She said that she dreamt about friends, people she knew and places she had visited. She also expressed her belief that there should not be a template in regards to the various themes in dreams. Here is my…
Continue ReadingI am responding to a request to analyze a dream in which a woman was visited by her deceased father. This type of dream is archetypal and wrought with symbolic meaning. When a person who has passed on visits us in our dreams – we are accessing the collective unconscious. This is the resting place…
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