{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Inner Life, Outer World: The Psychology of Adaptation","description":"Adaptation is a bread-and-butter concept in psychotherapy - can we accept, adjust to, and thrive in the outer and inner worlds we live in? Given constraints, what does it take to find life at least meaningful, hopefully satisfying--and flourish?    This week Jungian analyst and author JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D. joins us to circumambulate the complexities of adaptation. Successful adaptation involves making conscious choices based on a realistic understanding of the internal and external parameters in which we operate. Adaptation not only requires a true-to-life perception of possibilities and pathways in the external world, it may also require reassessment and reordering of our values and attitudes.    We discuss Robert Langs\u2019 \u201cadaptive paradigm,\u201d a distinct model of the mind and the unconscious and emotional components that connect inner life to the outer world. For example, Langs understands dreams as feedback about current adaptive challenges. This is both subtly different and complementary to Jung\u2019s approach, which suggests that inability to solve an outer world problem is often due to an underdeveloped understanding of an aspect of inner life.   Adaptation does not eliminate turmoil, suffering and loss; they are part of life. We need to recognize environmental actualities and internal limitations that cannot be changed\u2014and develop ways to mitigate or adjust to them. Successful adaptation also requires mourning what cannot be changed, developing a less egocentric stance, and building a life in tune with reality.    Visit our website to read today\u2019s dream and a complete list of the resources we mention: \u2060https:\/\/thisjungianlife.com\/adaptation\/\u2060   Follow Up   Read John White\u2019s book, \u2060Adaptation and Psychotherapy: Langs and Analytical Psychology\u2060 Download our free \u2060Dream Recall Meditation Guide\u2060 \u2060Send a dream\u2060 for us to analyze on the show Take a look at \u2060This Jungian Life Dream School\u2060, our online course in Jungian dream analysis. ","author_name":"This Jungian Life","author_url":"http:\/\/www.ThisJungianLife.com","html":"