My approach to Jungian analysis has been profoundly influenced by the two artistic passions I have pursued in my life - music and photography. Particularly when teaching, accompanying or performing with colleagues, establishing a trusting, safe space that encourages vulnerability and honesty is as crucial in music as it is in analysis. And though I’m not a music therapist, I find that investigating the music a person is drawn to in times of crisis can be extremely helpful in analysis.

Rodney performs his arrangement of “Song to the Moon” from Dvorak’s opera Rusalka and discusses the relationship between music and Jungian analysis.

Quiet Music by Nico Muhly

Performed by Rodney Waters, piano

Charles Ives, Violin Sonata No. 3

Curt Thompson, violin; Rodney Waters, piano

Embodying the Soul - a project about tattoos presented at the Jung Center of Houston by Rodney Waters and Kate Burns.

Spirit and the Trickster perform their new song Jung's Lament. Quotes and images by C. G. Jung.

John Price, guitar and vocals; Rodney Waters, piano

In celebration of National Chamber Music Month, violist James Dunham and pianist Rodney Waters (both members of St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society) perform an excerpt from Robert Schumann's "Märchenbilder," or "Fairy Tale Pictures." Interesting fact: Dunham performs on a Gaspar da Salo viola, ca. 1585.

Patrick Moore (cello) and Rodney Waters (piano), both hard-working Houston musicians, perform three pieces for cello and piano: Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Spurn Point" (from "Six Studies in English Folk Song"); Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 119, mvt. II by Sergei Prokofiev; and "The Desolation of Man" (from "Dreams and Hallucinations," mvt.