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Research Suggests That Synchronicities Can Aid Psychotherapy

Therapist confidence about using synchronicity correlates with outcome. Carl Jung described the paradigmatic synchronicity during...

Bernard Beitman, MD

Nov 25, 20206 min read

Jung's scarab shows the difficulty in taking responsibility for a coincidence. In his monograph Synchronicity (1973) Carl Jung...

Bernard Beitman, MD

Nov 16, 20204 min read

11:11 or 2:30 or 9:11 keep showing up on your clocks. What’s going on? You look at your clock. And there it is, the same number. Again....

Bernard Beitman, MD

Sep 2, 20202 min read

The right question is: What is the range of my free will? This age-old question—do you have free will?—asks for a yes or a no answer. The...

Bernard Beitman, MD

Jul 16, 20202 min read

Are coincidences random or meaningful? Two psychiatrists debate. Coincidence was the subject for the lead article of the March 2020...

Bernard Beitman, MD

Apr 30, 20204 min read