What did Jung have to say about stress?

Hi, my name is Stuart Allsopp, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it, because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them. Everyone, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is the show Crazy Wisdom. My guest here is Howard Teiche. He is a Jungian archetype, therapist and analysis. And we're going to get into the work that he does and how it applies to the relationship between stress and creativity, how it frees people up from stresses that they face and makes them more creative, allows them to tap into the inner sources of creativity that live inside them. So it's a pleasure to have you on. Howard, do you want to tell us a little bit more about what you do?

Sure. It's an honor to be talking to you, Stuart. I've been a. I call myself an archetypal psychologist for about 45, 50 years, mostly in San Francisco in a private practice, individuals, couples, groups. Done some writing eventually, but when I got out of graduate school, I got interested in dreams. And if you're interested in dreams, this was in my early 30s. The only person I feel is really interesting to study is Jung. So not only did I study and read Jung, but I went into analysis with some of the world's best Jungians in San Francisco and was just the four or five of the most major …