Carl Jung (1875-1961)
"was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the school of
analytical psychology. He proposed and developed the concepts of the extroverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and the
collective unconscious. The issues that he dealt with arose from his personal experiences. For many years Jung felt as if he had two
separate personalities. One introverted and other extroverted. This interplay resulted in his study of
integration and wholeness. His work has been influential not only in psychology, but in religion and literature as well.
"Jungian Analytical Psychology: In 1912, Jung published,
Symbols and Transformations of the Libido. Jung wanted to understand the symbolic meaning of the contents of
the unconscious. In order to distinguish between individual psychology and psychoanalysis Jung gave his discipline
the name "analytical psychology." [From information compiled by Charles Cowgil, May 1997.]
With regard to Jungian collective unconscious, Jung once explained, “My thesis...is as
follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be
the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of
a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop
individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious
secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”
Jungian Depth Psychotherapy refers to a collection of various approaches to therapy that value
an in-depth approach, such as psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, Jungian, relational, humanistic, existential, gestalt, and many
other approaches to therapy.
Related subjects: Jungian psychology, Jungian analytical psychology, Jungian theory, Jungian
Therapy, Jungian psychotherapy, Jungian psychoanalysis, Jungian dream analysis, Jungian collective unconscious, Jungian analytical
psychotherapy, and Jungian analytical psychology.
