Analytic Psychology
Analytic Psychology was created by Carl Jung. This theory is based off Jung's concept of the psyche. The therapy then helps people integrate and make conscious aspects of the psyche or personality.
GoalsThis type of therapy is deep and intensive and the goal is to reach into a person’s unconscious to deal with the painful elements to gain meaning and acceptance in order to move forward. This will then lead to the resolution of internal conflicts and allow for the person to have a better balance in life. The goal is not to help a person find happiness but help them cope with the inevitable pain of life and find a balance between joy and sorrow.
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Concepts
The Conscious Mind
Jung believed the conscious mind was just a small fraction of the psyche, just as Freud did.
Jung believed the conscious mind was just a small fraction of the psyche, just as Freud did.
- Ego- The ego is the center of the conscious mind. It gives us our sense of the world and reality and exerts a large amount of influence over our decisions. IT is formed by our perceptions, memories, thoughts, and feelings and gives us a sense of identity.
- Persona- The persona is our idealized self. This is the face of the collective psyche and it is what we show to the outside world. It acts as our protective shield to conceal our problems, and can change from one situation to the next.
- Attitudes and functions- The two attitudes are extraversion and introversion. The four functions are thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. Typically one of the four functions is the primary way a person interacts with the world.
The Unconscious Mind
Jung believed this was a larger more powerful piece of the psyche, in contrast to Freud, Jung believed it to be positive with a source of creativity and spiritual and emotional growth as well as of confusion and symptoms.
Jung believed this was a larger more powerful piece of the psyche, in contrast to Freud, Jung believed it to be positive with a source of creativity and spiritual and emotional growth as well as of confusion and symptoms.
The Collective Unconscious
Jung described this as the store house for latent memory traces inherited from the past. It transcends individual experience and includes the collective experiences of humans throughout their entire evolutionary past.
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Personal Unconscious
This piece is unique to each individual and form's over the person's lifetime. It contains repressed memories and feelings and can be triggered by daily stimuli.
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Treatment |
Techniques |
Treatment was lengthy and intensive and clients usually went to therapy twice a week.
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Use of symbols
Symbols appear in dreams, symptoms, fantasies and various other instances. Looking at symbols in a client's life allows the clinician to see the underlying dynamics and patterns driving the client's thoughts, feelings, and actions. Dream Interpretation Dreams provide easy access to the unconscious. Jung believed they reflected the client's inner lives and unconscious responses. In therapy the client will recall the dream and it will be explored to investigate its effect on the unconscious and they will make sense of what happened and why. Word Association Tests These tests are when a clinician will read a word and the client will say the first word that comes to mind. Verbal and nonverbal responses will be looked at and provide clues to the presence of complexes and other unconscious material. Rituals Jung felt rituals were incredibly important so he would often include them in therapy. Rituals are celebrations of a person's growth and passage from one phase to the next, and Jung felt it would provide a meaningful addition to therapy. |