Creating Synchronicity in Treatment and in Other Human Relationships

Volume 39 · Number 5
MAY 2009

By Jan Fawcett, MD

This May 2009 edition of Psychiatric Annals features a series of articles on “Synchronicity,” guest edited and partially written by Bernard Beitman. These articles illustrate the significance of occurrences of acausal, symbolic, emotionally impacting, and transitionally significant events in therapy and everyday life.

Synchronicity, Weird Coincidences, and Psychotherapy

Synchronicity, Weird Coincidences, and Psychotherapy
Bernard D. Beitman, MD

Two Patients who Think their Family Members have been Replaced by ‘Imposters’
Brenda J. Talley, MD; Luke Michels, MD

CE article Brains Seek Patterns in Coincidences
Bernard D. Beitman, MD

CE article Weird Coincidences Commonly Occur
Stephanie L. Coleman; Bernard D. Beitman, MD; Elif Celebi, MD

CE article Characterizing High-frequency Coincidence Detectors
Bernard D. Beitman, MD; Stephanie L. Coleman

CE article Synchroners, High Emotion, and Coincidence Interpretation
Bernard D. Beitman, MD; Albert Shaw, MD

CE article Synchronicity and Psychotherapy: Jung’s Concept and Its Use in Clinical Work
Robert H. Hopcke, MFT

Clinical Implications of Synchronicity and Related Phenomena
Ginette Nachman, MD, PhD